Nederlandse Taalkunde - Volume 29, Issue 1, 2024

Abstract Northern Standard Dutch, i.e. the standard variety spoken in the Netherlands, is currently subject to an ongoing vowel shift that started approximately 100 years ago. This so-called ‘Polder shift’ changes tense mid vowels to upgliding diphthongs and lowers the nuclei of diphthongs. Sociolinguistic migrants – speakers of Southern Standard Dutch who moved from Flanders to The Netherlands – may a Read More

Abstract Syntactic theories are typically construed based on acceptability judgments. These judgments are increasingly often collected experimentally, testing larger sets of linguistically naive participants. An important assumption is that participants have a very clear understanding of what it is they are asked to do, which can be assessed by establishing their internal consistency. The question we Read More

Abstract This research aims to provide a diachronic analysis of the developments in the Dutch pronouns degene/diegene ‘the one/those who’, from 1200 to the present, as cataphor and anaphor. To achieve our aim, three research questions will be answered: (i) how have form and meaning in the use of degene/diegene developed over the years? (ii) which developments can be specifically identified in the last t Read More