Maik Gibson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maik Gibson is involved.
Articles
2016 Language shift and endangerment in urban and rural East Africa: Three case studies Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 351–360 | Article
In this paper we present empirical data on three places in East Africa where language shift is occurring, two urban and one rural. In doing so, we hope that both the similarities and the differences will illuminate some of the underlying factors which influence communal choices about language… read more
2012 The role of implicational universals in language change: Evidence from Tunisian Arabic dialects The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Guido Seiler (eds.), pp. 107–120 | Article
Universal properties of language constrain not only the languages themselves, but also which directions of change are possible. Implicational universals, where one linguistic property is seen to constrain, or in the weaker case, have a probabilistic influence upon the value of another parameter,… read more