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Publication details [#64606]

Dal Negro, Silvia and Marco Angster. 2018. Francoprovençal in contact with Walser German. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018 (249) : 135–150.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language contact | language variety | minority language | speech community

Language as a subject

Francoprovençal | German, Allemanian | German, Walser

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper centers on Francoprovençal (FP) from the viewpoint of language contact, especially the reciprocal effects between FP and two dialects of German (Alemannic) spoken in the Aosta region and appertaining to the sternly imperiled Walser minority group located in Northwestern Italy.