Past, Present and Future of a Language Border

Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-61451-583-8
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 319 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Reihe: Language and Social Life [LSL]

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.

Zielgruppe

Sociolinguists, Historical Linguists, and Researchers in Language

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peersman, Catharina

Vosters, Rik

Rutten, Gijsbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Catharina Peersman, University of Sheffield, UK; Gijsbert Rutten, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.