Taal en Tongval - Volume 63, Issue 2, 2011

Dutch has three kinds of adpositions: prepositions, postpositions and circumpositions (prepositions and postpositions can be compounds). In this contribution the semantic differences are discussed in connection with the regional ones. The discussion is restricted to expressions of “real movement”. Prepositions can be characterised as (static or dynamic) locative, postpositions as “trajective” and circumpositions as direct Read More

This is the third article on endings in verb forms in the southern Dutch dialects (cf. also De Schutter 2008, 2010). It is concerned with the 3rd p. singular and the 2nd p., both singular and plural. But for a very small number of ‘irregular’ verbs, all present tense forms had the same ending (coronal obstruent) for 3rd p. sing. and 2nd p. pl. in Old Germanic, and this carried through to all modern southern dialects of Dutch. Mo Read More

In this article I compare plural formation in West Frisian and Dutch. Regular plural formation in these languages is quite similar. They possess the same plural suffixes, -en and –s, the distribution of which is triggered by the same phonological principles, stress (the trochaic principle) and sonority (the sonority hierarchy). Next to these phonological principles morphological selection plays a role in both languages. Notwithst Read More

This paper aims at mapping out and analyzing language variation and the underlying social structures of adolescents in a part of the province North Brabant, The Netherlands. It presents the findings of a study that was conducted in 2010 at two Dutch high schools, in a large college in the town of Uden and in a much smaller school in the peripheral village of Mill. Twelve video recordings were made of Brabantish boys and girls age Read More

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