Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 57, Issue 2, 2019

Abstract This article is about the relation of three literary texts to psychological stage theories. The texts under discussion are a novel by Dutch novelist Maarten ’t Hart (De aansprekers, 1979) and stories by Flemish writer Kristien Hemmerechts (‘Fasen’, 1996) and German author Daniel Kehlmann (‘Rosalie geht sterben’, 2009). This article especially focusses on the stage theory of dying, as formulated by the Swiss-Americ Read More

Abstract While Dutch literary studies are in a critical situation according to many, this is less often heard with regard to Dutch linguistics. Against this background, the article analyses recent inaugural lectures of Dutch literary scholars (from the Netherlands and from Germany) with regard to types of knowledge-production that can be taken from these lectures. It turns out that the accumulation of specific disciplinary knowled Read More

Abstract In this paper, I analyse the Dutch construction of the type want/omdat X from the perspective of the concept of hidden complexity. I show that while the traditional use of the conjunctions want ‘because’ and omdat ‘because’ followed by an independent or a dependent clause, respectively, is overtly more complex in that it uses more language material, its hidden complexity is low. The constructions of the type Read More