This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its

This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a

Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both French and Dutch

Multilingualism is a crucial if often unrecognized marker of new European identities. In this collection of essays, we observe how a plurilinguist and pluricult

The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organiza