Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death Book

	List of maps	vii
	List of contributors	viii
	Preface	x
	Introduction	1
I	Focus on context
1	On language death in eastern Africa	13
2	The disappearance of the Ugong in Thailand	33
3	Scottish and Irish Gaelic: The giant's bed-fellows	41
4	The rise and fall of an immigrant language: Norwegian in America	61
5	Breton vs. French: Language and the opposition of political, economic, social, and cultural values	75
6	"Persistence" or "tip" in Egyptian Nubian	91
7	Sociolinguistic creativity: Cape Breton Gaelic's linguistic "tip"	103
8	Skewed performance and full performance in language obsolescence: The case of an Albanian variety	117
9	On the social meaning of linguistic variability in language death situations: Variation in Newfoundland French	139
10	The social functions of relativization in obsolescent and non-obsolescent languages	149
II	Focus on structure
11	Problems in obsolescence research: The Gros Ventres of Montana	167
12	The structural consequences of language death	181
13	On signs of health and death	197
14	Case usage among the Pennsylvania German sectarians and nonsectarians	211
15	Estonian among immigrants in Sweden	227
16	The incipient obsolescence of polysynthesis: Cayuga in Ontario and Oklahoma	243
17	Urban and non-urban Egyptian Nubian: Is there a reduction in language skill?	259
18	Some lexical and morphological changes in Warlpiri	267
19	Language contraction and linguistic change: The case of Welland French	287
20	Lexical innovation and loss: The use and value of restricted Hungarian	313
III	Invited commentaries
21	Some people who don't talk right: Universal and particular in child language, aphasia, and language obsolescence	335
22	Language obsolescence and language history: Matters of linearity, leveling, loss, and the like	347
23	Language convergence and language death as social processes	355
24	Pidgins, creoles, immigrant, and dying languages	369
25	The "up" and "down" staircase in secondary language development	385
	Bibliography	395
	Index of languages	422
	General index	426
	Maps
	World map showing main languages discussed in this volume
	Eastern Africa
	Irish and Scottish Gaelic speakers circa 1500 and at the present day
	Norwegians in the United States, 1930
	Major dialects of the Breton language