Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 56, Issue 1, 2018

Abstract According to a recent manifesto titled Manifest Nederlands op School, the secondary school subject Dutch Language and Literature is incoherent, unchallenging and unscientific. In order to solve this problem, the school subject should strive to reach levels of conscious language proficiency (‘bewuste taalvaardigheid’), for example by drawing on insights from the related academic discipline. By doing so, the school Read More

Abstract The early nineteenth century saw the introduction of the first national orthography and grammar of Dutch, commissioned by the government and officially codified by Siegenbeek (1804) and Weiland (1805), respectively. However, the effectiveness of this so-called schrijftaalregeling ‘written language regulation’ on actual language usage has never been investigated empirically. Based on a newly co Read More

Abstract This paper compares the ways to express negation in Dutch and in Hungarian. It points out what changes the two languages have experienced through the centuries as far as the multiple negation is concerned and gives examples of sentences containing multiple negative elements, both in Negative Concord (NC) and Double Negation (DN) languages. Based on the data I analyze the consequences of the diff Read More

Abstract The Dutch press at the end of the 18th century played a crucial role in the political changes in the Netherlands. At that time, the society was divided into two oppositional groups, namely the patriots and the orangists. Their leaders made use of numerous journals to present their vision about the future of the state. One of those journals, called De Politieke Kruyer (1782-1787), combined the idea of freedom with de Read More