Past, Present and Future of a Language Border
Download or Read eBook Past, Present and Future of a Language Border PDF written by Catharina Peersman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Catharina Peersman |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2015-07-24 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781501501067 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1501501062 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Past, Present and Future of a Language Border by : Catharina Peersman
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.
