Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

7/1/1974 - 6/30/1975

Funding Totals

$32,000.00 (approved)
$32,000.00 (awarded)


Nahuatl Language Death and Maintenance

FAIN: RO-11885-74

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Kenneth C. Hill (Project Director: July 1974 to present)

To establish the mechanism which contribute to the life and death or creolization of languages by conducting a field study of language death and maintenance in the Nahuatl-speaking communties of Central Mexico. This study will be an important contribution to linguistic theory.