Taal en Tongval - Volume 71, Issue 1, 2019

Abstract The codification of Limburgish: motives and their patterns Limburgish, the regional language spoken in the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg, shows characteristics of standardization: from the nineteenth century onwards, an increasing number of dictionaries, grammars, and spelling guides of various Limburgish dialects have been published. This shows that Limburgish undergoes codification, one of the major Read More

Abstract On etwat, etwuk and iets: geography and dynamics of the indefinite pronoun (for things) in West-Flanders This paper focuses on the geography and dynamics of indefinite pronoun variants in West-Flanders (Belgium). Whereas traditional dialect data show etwat (‘something’) as being the traditional West-Flemish dialect variant, recent studies have attested a new variant in the area: etwuk. This paper addresses t Read More

Abstract The origin of the Dutch word Bargoens No definitive light has yet been shed on the origin of the Dutch word Bargoens. Etymological dictionaries present two explanations as the most probable provenance: one suggests that Bargoens is derived from Bourgondisch, the other that it is a borrowing from Fr. baragouin ‘incomprehensible language’, which is itself from the Breton bara gwin ‘bread, wine’, the Breton langu Read More