Past, Present and Future of a Language Border

Past, Present and Future of a Language Border
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9781614514152
ISBN-13 : 1614514151
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Book Synopsis Past, Present and Future of a Language Border by : Catharina Peersman

Download or read book Past, Present and Future of a Language Border written by Catharina Peersman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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