: Catharina Peersman, Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters
: Past, Present and Future of a Language Border Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9781501501067
: Language and Social Life [LSL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 99.10
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: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 330
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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.

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