Language Contact at the Romance-Germanic Language Border / / ed. by Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Roland Willemyns.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bister-Broosen, Helga,; Darquennes, Jeroen,; Durme, Luc van,; Eichinger, Ludwig,; Fehlen, Fernand,; Nelde, Peter,; Rash, Felicity,; Ryckeboer, Hugo,; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine,; Willemyns, Roland,
• HerausgeberIn: Treffers-Daller, Jeanine,; Willemyns, Roland,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Aspects of the Romance-Germanic Language Border: An Introduction --; Genesis and Evolution of the Romance-Germanic Language Border in Europe --; Dutch/Flemish in the North of France --; The Dutch-French Language Border in Belgium --; Language Use and Language Contact in Brussels --; German in Belgium: Linguistic Variation from a Contact Linguistic Point of View --; Luxembourg, a Multilingual Society at the Romance/Germanic Language Border --; Alsace --; The German-Romance Language Borders in Switzerland --; South Tyrol: German and Italian in a Changing World
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781853596711; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781853596711
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Roland Willemyns.

The current volume brings together sociolinguistic analyses of language contact along the Romance Germanic Language Border, shedding more light on the variable and the universal elements in language contact and shift. It covers the whole range of the border, from French Flanders through South Tirol. Every part of it has been treated by outstanding experts. They describe the current state of the art in ‘their' portion of the language border and include information on the legal and/or practical status of the language border and the status and function of all languages concerned. Attitudinal and language planning initiatives as well as the standardisation status of the regionally official and minority languages are discussed. Language borrowing, code switching and other language contact phenomena are analysed in detail.