The central issue addressed in this paper is the formal linguistic notion of parameter as a predictor for (non-)occurrence multiple phenomena. We start from parametric analysis microvariational data set and we introduce way gauging success that analysis. At same time, explore to what extent language contact—operationalized here geographical proximity—can be seen an explanatory factor complement...

In rural Tanzania, recent major influences happen between Kiswahili and English to ethnic languages rather than ethnic languages, which had been in contact for so long, influencing each other. In this work, I report the results of investigation of lexical changes in indigenous languages that aimed at examining how ethnic communities and their languages, namely Cushitic Iraqw, Nilotic Datooga, N...