Contact and Conflict along Language Borders Romance-Germanic Encounters in the Low Countries |
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| Editor:
| Peersman, Catharina
Rutten, Gijsbert
Vosters, Rik |
| Series title: | Language and Social Life Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61451-416-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2015 |
| Publisher: | Mouton De Gruyter
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| Book Format: | Mixed media product |
| List Price: | USD $238.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.