Frontmatter -- Contents -- Aspects of the Romance-Germanic Language Border: An Introduction -- Genesis and Evolution of the Romance-Germanic Language Border in Europe -- Dutch/Flemish in the North of France -- The Dutch-French Language Border in Belgium -- Language Use and Language Contact in Brussels -- German in Belgium: Linguistic Variation from a Contact Linguistic Point of View -- Luxembourg, a Multilingual Society at the Romance/Germanic Language Border -- Alsace -- The German-Romance Language Borders in Switzerland -- South Tyrol: German and Italian in a Changing World