Nederlandse Taalkunde - Volume 23, Issue 3, 2019

Abstract The position of Standard Dutch and tussentaal in Flanders: the opinions of adolescents from Tielt In this paper, the results of a perceptions and attitudes study in the West-Flemish town Tielt are reported. Twenty teenagers were subjected to an interview, to gain insight in the way they evaluate intralingual language variation in Flanders and how they judge on the situational appropriateness of this variation. These intervi Read More

Abstract This paper discusses the expression of emotional involvement in informal computer-mediated communication (CMC). While related research is quite fragmentary through its exclusive focus on a limited number of expressive markers or the inclusion of just one independent variable, the present study includes a wide range of expressive markers and three independent vari­ables. The data reveal strikingly con Read More

Abstract This article aims at showing that the special interpretations of asymmetrical coordinate structures result from an interplay between the syntactico-semantic output of the grammar and pragmatics, but that they do not necessitate the introduction of special syntactico-semantic means; standard assumptions about syntax, semantics and pragmatics suffice for providing an adequate description of the core data.

Abstract The Dutch alsof-X construction (‘as if X’) can be used to make a sincere compar­ison, like het lijkt alsof X (‘it seems as if’). After an analysis of a corpus of Dutch tweets, the authors of this squib argue that the alsof-X construction can also be used to express emotion and negation. Moreover, after analysis of English tweets, it is reasoned that the as if X-construction is used by language users to serve yet another pur Read More

Abstract Some linguistic constructions can be considered default ironic construc­tions, as those combinations of words almost always trigger an ironic reading (Giora, Drucker & Fein 2014, Giora et al 2015). According to La Roi (2014), the Dutch altijd-X-construction can be considered such a default ironic construction. However, a corpus analysis reveals that most of the instances are not ironic. The assumption that the altijd-X Read More