Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 53, Issue 1, 2015

Abstract This article discusses the way in which the VPOS+and+VINF-periphrastic construction is used in Afrikaans to express progressive aspectual meaning. The discussion is based on the results of a corpus based investigation which examined the specific ways in which the use of this construction differs from that of the other two Afrikaans periphrastic progressive constructions, namely the aan+die/’t+VINF constructio Read More

Abstract This article explores the discursive role of intertextual references to medieval Persian poets, representatives of the Sufi tradition, in the work of Kader Abdolah, the internationally successful Dutch author of Iranian descent. Most references are authorial ones, that is, they do not refer to a particular text, but to the author of the text, sometimes in a fictionalized form, sometimes mentioning him as a historical figure. At f Read More