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Peer reviewedNeville, Grace – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Traces the history and describes the present state of France's regional languages (Alsacien, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Flemish, and Occitan) and analyzes the common problems encountered by speakers of these languages. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Basque, Diachronic Linguistics, Ethnic Groups
Download full textTreffers-Daller, Jeanine – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
This article discusses structural factors responsible for a number of subtle differences in the outcome of language contact in Brussels (Belgium) and Strasbourg (France), and suggest that sociolinguistic factors have little explanatory power in this area. Differences between the rules for past participle formation in Dutch as spoken in Brussels…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dutch, Foreign Countries, French
Peer reviewedWillemyns, Roland – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Discusses the consequences of "language shift through erosion" on the basis of an analysis of the gradual disappearance of Dutch as a native language in French Flanders. Sketches the theoretical language-in-contact framework, breaking down the chronological evolution into diglossic, bilingual and (almost) monolingual phases. (37…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Agents, Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Effect
