Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde - Volume 136, Issue 4, 2020

Abstract Both Dutch and (West) Frisian make use of the exclamative particle wat (‘how’), that adds an element of surprise about a high degree of something to the semantics of the sentence. In this paper I will first show the similarities between the use of the particle in the two languages. I will demonstrate that, in Dutch, its use is largely confined to constructions that are semantically scalable, whereas in Frisian this restriction is Read More

Abstract In his function of secretary of the city of Antwerp Jan van Boendale (also named Jan de Clerck) played his part in the international events of the first half of the fourteenth century. He describes these events in his books, and contemporary documents give additional information. In his works he shows a marked interest in king Edward iii of England, about whom he wrote two dedicated historiographical texts and whom h Read More

Abstract This article examines representations of urban destruction and of rising waters in Pieter Boskma’s Tsunami in de Amstel (2016) and in Guido van Driel’s De ondergang van Amsterdam (2007). It foregrounds the ways in which these texts reflect productively on visualisations and narrative frames of catastrophe, and how they propose alternative temporalities (in the case of Boskma) and alternative visual perspect Read More