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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457421103321

Autore

Weinreich Uriel

Titolo

Languages in contact [[electronic resource] ] : French, German and Romansch in twentieth-century Switzerland / / Uriel Weinreich ; with an introduction and notes by Ronald I. Kim and William Labov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-32907-7

9786613329073

90-272-8499-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KimRonald I

LabovWilliam

Disciplina

409.494

Soggetti

Languages in contact - Switzerland

Multilingualism - Switzerland

Sociolinguistics - Switzerland

Electronic books.

Switzerland Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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