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Languages in contact : French, German and Romansch in twentieth-century Switzerland / Uriel Weinreich ; with an introduction and notes by Ronald I. Kim and William Labov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weinreich, Uriel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages in contact--Switzerland.
- Languages in contact.
- Multilingualism--Switzerland.
- Multilingualism.
- Sociolinguistics--Switzerland.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Switzerland--Ethnic relations.
- Switzerland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (436 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich's Columbia University doctoral dissertation of 1951, Research Problems in Bilingualism with Special Reference to Switzerland. Based on the author's fieldwork, it contains a detailed report on language contact in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century, especially along the French-German linguistic border and between
- Contents:
- pt. 1. General research problems
- pt. 2. Bilingualism in Switzerland : cultural setting and linguistic effects
- pt. 3. French and German : a case of stable, long-term language contact
- pt. 4. German and Romansh : language contact in a situation of ongoing shift.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613329073
- 9781283329071
- 1283329077
- 9789027284990
- 9027284997
- OCLC:
- 769192112
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