Publications

Publication details [#29128]

Rash, Felicity. 2002. The German-Romance language borders in Switzerland. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 23 (1-2) : 112–136.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language policy | language status | multilingualism | national language

Language as a subject

French | German | Italian | Roman

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper deals with the legal status of the four Swiss national languages -German, French, Italian and Romansh-, the language policies of individual bi- and trilingual cantons, and language contact phenomena at the borders of the four language communities.