Contents -- Foreword -- Sources -- Introduction -- Part One Language Change in an Obsolescent Language -- Chapter 1 Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect -- Chapter 2 The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic -- Chapter 3 Making do with Less: Some Surprises along the Language Death Proficiency Continuum -- Chapter 4 Negative Borrowing in an Indigenous Language Shift to the Dominant National Language -- Part Two Speaker Skills and the Speech Community in a Receding Language Context -- Chapter 5 The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death -- Chapter 6 Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker -- Chapter 7 Defining the Speech Community to Include its Working Margins -- Chapter 8 Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the "Tip" to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families? -- Chapter 9 Age and Speaker Skills in Receding Language Communities: How Far do Community Evaluations and Linguists' Evaluations Agree? -- Chapter 10 Linguistic Lag as an Ethnic Marker -- Part Three Language Shift and Language Maintenance -- Chapter 11 Language Loss and Maintenance in Language Contact Situations -- Chapter 12 The Value of Language-Maintenance Efforts which are Unlikely to Succeed -- Chapter 13 The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization -- Chapter 14 Purism vs. Compromise in Language Revitalization and Language Revival -- Chapter 15 Western Language Ideologies and Small-Language Prospects -- Chapter 16 Bi- and Multilingualism in Minority and Endangered Languages -- Part Four Language Use -- Chapter 17 Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use.

Chapter 18 Telling the Monolinguals from the Bilinguals: Unrealistic Code Choices in Direct Quotations within Scottish Gaelic Narratives -- Chapter 19 Celebrations: In Praise of the Particular Voices of Languages at Risk -- Part Five Fieldwork: Methods, Problems, Insights -- Chapter 20 Gathering Language Data in Terminal Speech Communities -- Chapter 21 Surprises in Sutherland: Linguistic Variability amidst Social Uniformity -- Chapter 22 Documentation and Responsibility -- Chapter 23 The Private and the Public in Language Documentation and Revitalization -- Author Index -- General Index.