Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 54, Issue 2, 2016

Abstract The impersonal passive in Dutch and Swedish This paper gives an account of the impersonal passive in Dutch and Swedish and has two goals: first, to define the impersonal passive and second, to offer a corpus-based study of impersonal passives in both languages. Impersonal passives are defined as passive constructions encoding actions with a general reference. They are made up of an overt expletive subjec Read More

Abstract Balancing between formal and familiar: about the dynamics of address pronouns in the radio show Casa Luna This article concerns forms of address in Dutch and more specifically switching between formal and informal address forms in dialogue. As a mechanism for establishing politeness between conversation participants, the use of address forms is constantly subject to negotiation and renegotiation, not unlike Read More