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Busy Intersections: A Framework for Revitalization
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2017)
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The Knowledge of Ideophones in Multilingual Contexts: A West African Pilot Study
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2016)
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The Knowledge of Ideophones and Multilingualism: A West African Pilot Study
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2016)
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Busy Intersections: A Framework for Revitalization
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2015)
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The Language Ecology of Sierra Leone
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2015)
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Synthesis before the Proto-Niger-Congo Inflectional Verb: Evidence from the Peripheral South Atlantic Languages
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2014)
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The Tense-OP Syntagm: Unity to NC Word Order, Evidence from Bulom, South Atlantic
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2012)
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Language Endangerment in West Africa: Its Victims and Causes
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2008)
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This paper catalogues the forces at work threatening the Atlantic languages of Guinea and Sierra Leone. Compared to Mande, the other major language group in the area, and to figures for Africa in general (Sommer 1992), the Atlantic Group is beset by ominous forces. These include what could be considered ecological features (e.g., Mufwene 2001): the Mande Expansion (Niane 1989), colonialism, the spread of Islam, and globalization. There are other forces to be sure, such as the influence of Christian missions (Welmers 1971; cf. Mühlhäusler 1990), urbanization (a sub-category, perhaps, of globalization), and climatic changes (Brooks 1993, Fairhead and Leach 1996). The forces chosen here have been selected because they are the most significant for the languages under investigation, those most threatened (see the papers in Muthwii and Kioko 2004). In no way, however, does the discussion purport to examine any of these forces in depth, an impossible task in a paper of this length.
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African Languages and Societies; Atlantic languages; Endangered languages; Language obsolescence -- West Africa; Languages in contact -- West Africa; Linguistics; Multilingualism
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URL: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/ling_fac/42
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=ling_fac
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Language Death within the Atlantic Group of West Africa
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2008)
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The S-Aux-O-V-Other Syntagm in Atlantic
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2005)
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The Atlantic and Mande Groups of Niger-Congo: A study in contrasts, a study in interaction
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2004)
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Predicate Clefting in Kisi
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (1997)
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Language Typology and Reconstruction: The Prenasalized Stops of Kisi
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (1995)
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Lexicography in West Africa: Preparing a Bilingual Kisi-English Dictionary
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (1993)
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Nasality in Kisi
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In: Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations (1991)
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