Taal en Tongval - Volume 62, Issue 2, 2010

On February, 16, 2006, the website PLAntennamen in de Nederlandse Dialecten was launched („plant names in the Dutch dialects‟, or PLAND), which contains over 300.000 tokens, and which is potentially the biggest database of its kind worldwide. This paper provides a description of the history of PLAND, its contents and the interface.

1st and 3rd p. plural verb forms have largely converged into one form with nasal ending; only in a very small part in the southeast there is an opposition between the simple nasal ending and /nt/; the former occurs with most verbs, the second being restricted to the small class of vowel stems. The latter category (gaa-n, zie-n, doe-n, etc.) also displays very occasionally double endings (ga-nen, doe-ene, zie-nen). This text Read More

The language situation in Flanders is and always has been unique. Varying from many different base dialects to a standard language, the Flemish language continuum makes an interesting topic of linguistic study. However research from the perspective of language accommodation theories is not widely spread. Nonetheless, this type of research proves to open new possibilities to learn more about the use of language in Flande Read More

Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the application of modern methodology to the study of geographic language variation. One instance of this, applied to the Dutch language area, is the topic of dialectometry. It seems fair to say that the measurements in most dialectometrical projects are fairly superficial from a grammatical point of view. In this article, we propose a view of dialect distance whi Read More

This review article discusses the merits and demerits of Rob Belemans' dissertation “Taal of Tongval. De gespleten Limburgse kus, oraal erfgoed en taalpolitiek” [language or dialect: the split Limburgian kiss, oral heritage and language politics]. In addition to a discussion of Belemans' description of the different approaches of Belgium versus the Netherlands with regard to the recognition of Limburgian as a regional language in th Read More

The Syntactic Atlas of Dutch Dialects (SAND, volume 2; Barbiers, van der Auwera, Bennis, Boef, De Vogelaer en Van der Ham 2008) claims that Frisian has the Infinitivus-pro-Participio effect in clusters of three verbs, and, surprisingly, even in clusters of two verbs. It is argued here that both claims are wrong and that the claims are caused by an incorrect analysis of verbal endings in Frisian. More specifically, the occasional h Read More

From the end of 1915 until just after the armistice, Wilhelm Doegen made gramophone recordings of the nearly 250 languages or dialects of the soldiers interned in the German prisoner of war camps. After the war, the 1650 shellac discs resulting from this impressive undertaking made up the foundation of his Sound Department at the Prussian State Library. After Doegen’s dismissal in 1933, the department was attached to Read More

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