Author : Catharina Peersman
Release : 2015-07-24
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
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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. This book was released on 2015-07-24. 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.