Language Contact at the Romance-Germanic Language Border / / ed. by Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Roland Willemyns.

The current volume brings together sociolinguistic analyses of language contact along the Romance Germanic Language Border, shedding more light on the variable and the universal elements in language contact and shift. It covers the whole range of the border, from French Flanders through South Tirol....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Aspects of the Romance-Germanic Language Border: An Introduction
  • Genesis and Evolution of the Romance-Germanic Language Border in Europe
  • Dutch/Flemish in the North of France
  • The Dutch-French Language Border in Belgium
  • Language Use and Language Contact in Brussels
  • German in Belgium: Linguistic Variation from a Contact Linguistic Point of View
  • Luxembourg, a Multilingual Society at the Romance/Germanic Language Border
  • Alsace
  • The German-Romance Language Borders in Switzerland
  • South Tyrol: German and Italian in a Changing World