Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde - Volume 137, Issue 1, 2021

Abstract This article discusses the adjectivization of the Dutch interjections ça va and ok. Lemmens (2013) argues that this adjectivization process was driven by analogical relations based on broad syntactic categories. A corpus investigation and acceptability judgements show (i) that the adjectival use of ça va and ok has become more frequent since Lemmens’s research, but that their adjectivization is not (yet) complete Read More

Abstract In 2009, the term young adult literature (yal) was introduced in the Netherlands. By now, it may be stated that this term is enduring and has given an impulse to the (attention for) literature for adolescents. Furthermore, several developments have changed relationships with regard to the production and distribution of literature within the Dutch literary industry in the past years. At the same time, there is no consensus Read More