A large percentage of the world's languages–anywhere from 50 to 90%–are currently
spoken in what we call shift ecologies, situations of unstable bi-or multilingualism where …

Abstract Language shift is the process by which a speech community in a contact situation
(ie consisting of bilingual speakers) gradually stops using one of its two languages in favor …

Indonesia is home to over 700 languages. That amounts to around 10% of
theworld'slanguages. Itisonlyitseasternneighbor, PapuaNewGuinea, that …

This paper addresses the questions, Do bilingually induced and shift-induced change have
different outcomes? If they do, can these differences assist us in reconstructing the …

Contrary to Labov's principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray
speakers of dying languages as 'monostylistic', a characterization questioned here …

This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and
social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and …

This thesis is about the life and language of kardu kigay—young Aboriginal men in the town
of Wadeye, northern Australia. Kigay have attained some notoriety within Australia for their …

In a world where most individuals speak more than one language and most languages are
in contact with other languages, the study of language in its social context must take into …

Historiographers often have narrated sociolinguistics as an interdisciplinary field that
originated at the intersection of sociology, anthropology, and linguistics. This chapter …

Standardization is a focus of language maintenance efforts in many, but not all, minority
language communities. What is the impact of this choice on interspeaker variation in …