Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Catharina Peersman ,
Gijsbert Rutten ,
Rik Vosters
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.611kg
ISBN: 9781614515838
ISBN 10: 1614515832
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 20 July 2015
Recommended Age: College Graduate Student
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
This volume is sure to be of the utmost interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and, of course, historical sociolinguistics, as well as to people working on the history of Dutch, French, Luxembourgish or German. The insightful collection of articles makes a substantial contribution to sociolinguistic theory, due to the broad scope of high-quality work included, and the excellent epilogue that provides a succinct summary of how historical data can shed new light on our understanding of language contact, language conflict and language borders. James Hawkey in: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 4.2 (2018), 295-298
""This volume is sure to be of the utmost interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and, of course, historical sociolinguistics, as well as to people working on the history of Dutch, French, Luxembourgish or German. The insightful collection of articles makes a substantial contribution to sociolinguistic theory, due to the broad scope of high-quality work included, and the excellent epilogue that provides a succinct summary of how historical data can shed new light on our understanding of language contact, language conflict and language borders."" James Hawkey in: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 4.2 (2018), 295-298
This volume is sure to be of the utmost interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and, of course, historical sociolinguistics, as well as to people working on the history of Dutch, French, Luxembourgish or German. The insightful collection of articles makes a substantial contribution to sociolinguistic theory, due to the broad scope of high-quality work included, and the excellent epilogue that provides a succinct summary of how historical data can shed new light on our understanding of language contact, language conflict and language borders. James Hawkey in: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 4.2 (2018), 295-298
Author Information
Catharina Peersman, University of Sheffield, UK; Gijsbert Rutten, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
