A case of multilingualism in Eastern Belgium

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. The European absolute superlative, an orphan of grammar, of the lexicon, and of history 1
3. West European loanwords in Modern Latvian 15
4. A hypothesis: the notion of “multibehavior” 25
5. Fact or not fact — that is the question in the semantic interpretation of gerundive nominals 41
6. Odmah — a shifter of Serbo-Croatian in intralingual and contrastive perspective 61
7. Language contact: some reactions of a contactee 69
8. Contrastive analysis of terminology and the terminology of contrastive analysis 73
9. South Slavic terms for conjurors and sorcerers 83
10. Some notes on a Bulgarian model of expanded contrastive analysis 87
11. A. P. Chekhov’s short story Šutočka and two Serbo-Croat translations: The problem of translation versus interpretation 103
12. Theoretical contrastive linguistics and typological characterization 115
13. Interradical interfixes: contact and contrast 133
14. Some remarks on Middle-English influence in Icelandic 147
15. An outline of a cognitively-based model of phonology 155
16. Cartoons about language: a case study of the visual representation of sociolinguistic attitudes 179
17. Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms, New Zealandisms, and Anglicisms in contemporary German 195
18. Language contact in the prehistory of English 221
19. Collocations in monolingual and bilingual English dictionaries 225
20. Contrastive methods in contact linguistics 237
21. The “monitor model” and the role of the first language 247
22. On the form and meaning of the Serbo-Croatian modal morati 261
23. Reasons and opportunities for communication in the foreign-language and second-language classroom 271
24. Between language contact and language development 281
25. The lexicon of the Split dialect 289
26. Zu Phrasemvarianten in der kroatischen Sprache 301
27. Dictionary making: the ideal versus reality 311
28. Vokalsysteme in Kontakt. Was verdankt der vegliotische Vokalismus der slawo-romanischen Symbiose? 317
29. The designation of spherical objects in five European languages: an essay in contrastive semantics 329
30. A case of multilingualism in Eastern Belgium 335
31. Language contact and foreign language acquisition 345
32. On the struggle of underlying vowels for a voice in surface phonetic structure 365
33. English in Finnish: television subtitles 381
34. Politeness strategies and contrastive foreign language teaching 391
35. On revived words in the OED Supplement 407
36. Common features in the morphological adaptation of English loanwords in migrant Serbo-Croatian 417
37. Linguistic models and information theory 431
38. Language contact and code-switching in the bilingual personality 439
39. Contrastive reflexes in contact linguistics 451
40. Transfer grammar: from machine translation to pedagogical tool 469
41. Encouraging the development of bilingual proficiency for English-speaking Americans 477
42. A contemporary view on the compromise system of Serbo-Croatian learners of English 483
43. Croatian and Serbian church communities in Milwaukee 493
44. Subject index 499
45. 503-504 503