Deutsch im Kontakt mit germanischen Sprachen

These ten articles discuss language contacts between German and other Germanic languages and dialects: English, Frisian/Low German, Yiddish, the Scandinavian languages, and German dialects. As such it provides the first overview of its kind on this area of German and Germanic language history. In some of the articles, recent proposals for a theory of language contact are introduced, and there is also discussion of present-day issues in language policy.