nam a22 c 4500 z.166/296008313 nljbp 241011011903.1 cr ||||||||||| 141111s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011023564 9789027284990 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P130.52.S9 409.494 23 CFB bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Weinreich, Uriel author Languages in Contact French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland Uriel Weinreich Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 1 online resource (xxxiv, 401 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. List of tables -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The bilingual individual -- Chapter 2. Patterns of bilingual communities -- Chapter 3. Linguistic problems of bilingualism -- Chapter 4. Switzerland as a quadrilingual country -- Chapter 5. Intralingual relations -- Chapter 6. French-German bilingualism -- Chapter 7. Case study -- Chapter 8. The linguistic effects of bilingualism in Fribourg -- Chapter 9. German-Romansh bilingualism -- Chapter 10. Case study -- Chapter 11. Reversing language shift -- Chapter 12. The linguistic effects of bilingualism in Central Grisons -- Chapter 13. German-Italian bilingualism -- Chapter 14. Conclusions -- Poll of Chur students concerning their language background 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 German and Romansh in the canton of Grisons (Graubünden). The present edition reproduces Weinreich's original text in full, with only minor alterations and corrections, as well as the author's fieldwork photographs and many of his hand-drawn diagrams. A new foreword reviews Weinreich's life and legacy, as well as developments in contact linguistics and the Swiss linguistic situation over the past 60 years. With selected comments on noteworthy points and references to more recent literature, this volume will be of interest not only to those working on the languages of Switzerland, or specialists in language contact, but all scholars today whose work builds on the broad and lasting foundations laid over half a century ago by Uriel Weinreich. Provided by publisher. Contact Linguistics Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Theoretical linguistics Weinreich, Uriel author Kim, Ronald I. editor Labov, William editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027211873 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/z.166 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027284990