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Past, Present and Future of a Language Border : Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries

Peersman, Catharina,i1981- [Verfasser] ; Rutten, Gijsbert,i1977- ; Vosters, Rik,i1984-

Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2015

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (332 pages)

Language and Social Life ; v.1

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978-1-61451-415-2 ; 978-1-61451-583-8

ES 555

 

f Aufsatzsammlung  Niederlande  Sprachgrenze  Germanische Sprachen  Romanische Sprachen  f Aufsatzsammlung  

This volume revisits the issue of language contact and conflict in the Low Countries across space and time. The contributions deal with important sites of Germanic-Romance contact along the different language borders, covering languages such as French, Dutch, German, and Luxembourgish. This first monograph in English on the topic broadens our understanding of current-day issues by integrating a historical perspective, showing how language contact and conflict operated from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, the 18th and 19th centuries, and into the 20th and 21st centuries.