Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)
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Volume: 23 Number: 1 Page: 112–136
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The German-Romance Language Borders in Switzerland
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Felicity Rash
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This paper is concerned with language-contact phenomena at the borders of Switzerland's four language communities (German, French, Italian and Romansh), the legal status of the four Swiss national languages,
and the language policies of individual bilingual and trilingual cantons. The historical movements of the language boundaries will be described; linguistic interference resulting from direct language contact
at each of the language boundaries will be described in some detail; and recent research into linguistic cleavage and language attitudes will be summarised.
© Multilingual Matters 2002
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