Nederlandse Taalkunde - Volume 24, Issue 3, 2019

Abstract Oppassen geblazen. On formal, semantic and historical aspects of the Dutch geblazen construction The present study is concerned with the Dutch geblazen-construction (e.g. het is oppassen geblazen ‘one should watch out’; literally: ‘it is to.watch.out blown’). Its aim is to give the first systematic, usage-based description of the most important formal and semantic, as well as some diachronic aspects of this severely un Read More

Abstract Article omission in Moroccan Flavored Dutch. Bare nouns in monolingual Dutch expressions The aim of this paper is to shed light on article omission in Moroccan Flavored Dutch (MFD), a language variety in which Moroccan linguistic material (mainly Berber and Arabic) is combined with Dutch. It is well-known that MFD speakers are often inclined to omit articles in nominal phrases, and by doing so expressions contain so- Read More

Abstract The end of Polder Dutch? De perception of /εi/ and /ai/ in Standard Dutch in the Netherlands. While most early research on so-called Poldernederlands ‘Polder Dutch’ (Van Bezooijen 1999; Van Bezooijen & Van den Berg 2001) finds differences in perceptions between this supposedly substandard variety and Standard Dutch, this paper aims to demonstrate that present-day language users do not distinguish between th Read More

Abstract On rituals and routines in the opening and closing of service encounters in tourism offices in the Netherlands and Flanders This paper brings a cross-cultural analysis of opening and closing rituals and routines in Dutch and Flemish tourist offices, from a Politeness Theory perspective. On the basis of a corpus of 200 interactions it reveals, apart from some general comparable tendencies, quite different co Read More

Abstract The squib investigates the dialectal distribution of the Dutch construction type hetkan/mag/moet, lit. ‘it can/may/must’, where a modal verb occurs ‘independently’ with an eventive subject and no infinitival complement. The construction is shown to be widely attested not only in traditional dialects of Dutch, but also in Frisian, Low German, and Afrikaans. We suggest that the construction, which does not occur in st Read More