Taal en Tongval - Volume 74, Issue 1, 2022

Abstract Periphrastic constructions with come have primarily been grammaticalized to express tense in Indo-European languages (Devos & van der Wal 2014). In the Germanic language group, come has not undergone grammaticalization to the same degree that related go has. Nevertheless, this verb has acquired some special functions when used in combination with other elements. One of them concerns the combination of Read More

Abstract Nicknames for imaginary remote hamlets are widespread. One may think, for example, of Podunk Hollow (US). In the Netherlands, Boerenkoolstronkeradeel is best known (boerenkool = kale, stronk= stembase, deel = municipality). The leading Dutch dictionary defines Boerenkoolstronkeradeel as ‘a remote hamlet, alledgedly unreachable for “modern civilisation”’, the reference – most probably – being t Read More

Abstract This paper outlines a regional and socio-demographic overview of languages and dialects used most often in and outside the home and on social media in the Netherlands based on a large-scale national representative survey by Statistics Netherlands conducted in 2019 among 7,652 people aged 15 years or older. 149 different languages/dialects were reported to be spoken at home, in other places or used for writing Read More

Abstract This study explores the micro-selection and codification of third-person pronouns in the normative discourse on Standard Dutch from ca. 1550 to 1650. The analysis shows that there is little consensus both on what the norm for these pronouns should be, as well as on how to approach variation in their use, both in form (optionality) and in meaning (multifunctionality). Three different methods of micro-selection were atte Read More