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Past, Present and Future of a Language Border

Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries

Gijsbert Rutten editor Catharina Peersman editor Rik Vosters editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:20th Jul '15

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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 Ages and the Early Modern Period, the 18th and 19th centuries, and into the 20th and 21st centuries.

ISBN: 9781614515838

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 611g

330 pages