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Book The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1993

Download or read book The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1993 written by Thomas Frederic Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with various aspects of the Dutch language, mainly synchronic, although the historical dimension is not completely forgotten. The articles range thematically from formal and functional approaches to issues in modern Dutch syntax to language comparison, language planning, and Dutch language in America. All in all, these eleven contributions represent an excellent selection of current work in Dutch linguistics by major scholars from abroad and this country. Copublished with the American Association for Netherlandic Studies.

Book The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1997

Download or read book The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1997 written by Thomas Frederic Shannon and published by Publications of the American A. This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon presentations from the 1997 Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics, The Dutch Language at the Millennium is part of an ongoing series from the Dutch Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley. It is written by scholars on a variety of topics ranging from semantics and syntax to language history and ideology. General linguists as well as those specializing in the Dutch language will find this volume a useful tool. Co-published with the American Association for Netherlandic Studies.

Book History in Dutch Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert B. Howell
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780761825678
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book History in Dutch Studies written by Robert B. Howell and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History in Dutch Studies re-considers the central role of history within the discipline of Dutch Studies as viewed from a range of specializations within the field. Contributions by scholars of Dutch history, art history, literature and linguistics all illustrate how the past, and one's theories and views of history, affect the practice of each part of the discipline. One reflection of the history of the Low Countries in "Dutch Studies" is the range of the field: it is interpreted broadly in this volume to include studies of Afrikaans as well as Dutch literature- poetry as well as prose- in light of their histories, the history of Flanders and that of the Netherlands, approaches within Dutch linguistics as well as a history of language contact and its influence on Dutch. This breadth continues in the range of institutions and nationalities that are represented. The volume presents work from major scholars from the Netherlands, Belgium, and South Africa as well as from the United States of America. These articles therefore provide a good cross-section of ongoing research in the Netherlandic Studies the world over.

Book Dutch

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  • Author : Roland Willemyns
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-03-15
  • ISBN : 0199323666
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Dutch written by Roland Willemyns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 22 million people speak Dutch-primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, and the Antilles. Roland Willemyns here offers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the Dutch language in all its historical, geographic, and social aspects. Willemyns tells a story of language contact and conflict. From its earliest days, Dutch has been in intense contact with other languages both within and outside the borders of the Low Countries, particularly with French, Frisian, and German. The first part of Dutch concentrates on the historical development of standard Dutch and its dialects. The second part focuses on contemporary Dutch, including its many dialects in Flanders and Holland (some of them on the verge of extinction). Willemyns pays special attention to important questions in the history of Dutch, particularly the contentious matter of the global spread of Dutch through colonization-which led to "exotic" variations such as Afrikaans, pidgins, and creoles-and whether Dutchmen and Flemings are "separated by the same language." His final chapter tries to shed some light on the future of Dutch, and the impact of such "new" varieties as Poldernederlands (in Holland) and Verkavelingsvlaams (in Flanders). Placing the Dutch story in the context of other West-Germanic languages like German and English, Dutch: Biography of a Language is the only English language history of Dutch and will be sure to interest a global audience of students of Dutch, those of Dutch descent, and linguists and other scholars wishing to learn more about Dutch.

Book The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Literature  1995

Download or read book The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Literature 1995 written by Johan P. Snapper and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of twelve articles from the 1995 Berkeley Conference on Dutch Literature, ranging from critical essays on post-war Dutch poets as well as a re-examination of the current literary history of Dutch poetry. It deals with new currents in Dutch poetry, presented by American, Dutch, and Flemish netherlandists. It will be of interest to literary scholars beyond the field of Dutch poetry, since there is a strong comparative component to it; comparing Dutch with non-Dutch poetry. Contents: Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Theo van Doesburg and "De Stijl" in Light of the Fin de Siecle, Mary Kemperink; Postsymbolist Poets and the Dutch Cultural Regime, Marian de Vooght; Melodious Tears: The Struggle for Life and Poetry of Hans Lodeizen (1924-1950), Redbad Fokkema; Anna Enquist and the Contemporary Style in Poetry, Manfred Wolf; Poetry by the Numbers: On the Historiography of Modern Dutch Poetry, Wiljan van den Akker, Gillis Dorleijn; Face to Face: Contemporary Poetry of the Netherlands, Flanders, and Serbia, Jelica Novakovic-Lopusina; Hugo Claus' Poetry: Constants and Variants, Georges Wildemeersch; The Shape of the Heart: On the Transformation of Pain in the Work of Leonard Nolens, Helinde Spahr; With a Caterpillar on the Leaf of His Lips: The Oracular Poetry of Paul Snoek in Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus, Kendall A. Dunkelberg; The Smell of Higher Herring: Some Preliminary Remarks on Dutch Poetry in the Nineties, Jacqueline Del; De Dichter Voor de Klas: Gerrit Kouwenaar en de Professoren, Johan P. Snapper; Contributors' addresses. Co-published with Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies #11 (AAN).

Book Qualitative Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon

Download or read book Qualitative Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon written by Robert S. Kirsner and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts of linguistic forms in texts, informant questionnaires, and perception tests. The present volume, continuing a dialogue between CS and CG, offers six such qualitative-quantitative studies, one on Afrikaans and five on Dutch. Topics include (a) demonstratives, (b) pragmatic particles and imperatives, (c) a puzzling “dismissive” idiom, (d) progressive aspect, and (e) indirect objects. While CS is better suited for analyzing relatively closed systems (e.g. tense, pronouns), CG provides more insight into the vagaries of the amorphous lexicon. The author also offers personal remarks on “linguistics as a path” and discusses how in one case a wrong prediction reflects his dual role as both linguist and student of Dutch as a foreign language.

Book Janus at the Millennium

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  • Author : Thomas Frederic Shannon
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780761828327
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Janus at the Millennium written by Thomas Frederic Shannon and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of articles originally presented at the Tenth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies. These revised contributions, relating to the common theme of Janus and the perspective of time, examine Dutch language and culture from the U.S., Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Book Four Centuries of Dutch American Relations

Download or read book Four Centuries of Dutch American Relations written by Hans Krabbendam and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the United States.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics written by Robert B. Kaplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics contains 39 original chapters on a broad range of topics in applied linguistics by a diverse group of contributors. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field, the many connections among its various sub-disciplines, and the likely directions of its future development. The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics addresses a broad audience: applied linguists; educators and other scholars working in language acquisition, language learning, language planning, teaching, and testing; and linguists concerned with applications of their work. Systematically encompassing the major areas of applied linguistics-and drawing from a wide range of disciplines such as education, language policy, bi- and multi-lingualism, literacy, language and gender, neurobiology of language, psycholinguistics and cognition, language and computers, discourse analysis, language and concordances, ecology of language, pragmatics, translation, and many other fields, the editors and contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics provide a panoramic and comprehensive look at this complex and vigorous field. This second edition includes five new chapters, and the remaining chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated to give a clear picture of the current state of applied linguistics.

Book Ellipsis in Dutch Dialects

Download or read book Ellipsis in Dutch Dialects written by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries

Download or read book Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries written by William Z. Shetter and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all inclusive study of Netherlandic culture.

Book Flexible Syntax

Download or read book Flexible Syntax written by A. Neeleman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most linguistic theories assume that each grammatical relation is established in a unique structural configuration. Neeleman and Weerman take issue with this view, arguing for a more flexible approach on the basis of conceptual considerations and data taken mostly, but not exclusively, from the Germanic languages. In-depth analyses of word order phenomena as well as diachronic and typological generalizations motivate a re-evaluation of the role of case in the projection of arguments. Case is shown to provide a syntactic foothold for thematic interpretation, something which is necessary in a grammar that does not allow fixed theta-positions. Thus, this study does not only offer a genuine alternative to many standard assumptions, it also explains why there should be such a thing as case in natural language.

Book German Studies in North America

Download or read book German Studies in North America written by Keith Duane Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From the COLT   s mouth     and others

Download or read book From the COLT s mouth and others written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Jan Aarts: Does corpus linguistics exist?: some old and new issues. - Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg: Zero translations and cross-linguistic equivalence: Evidence from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. - Gisle Andersen: Corpora and the double copula. - Pieter de Haan: The non-nominal character of spoken English. - Eli-Marie Drange: Teenage slang in Norway. - Angela Hasselgren: Sounds a bit foreign.

Book The Syntax of Ellipsis

Download or read book The Syntax of Ellipsis written by Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch dialects within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Using two case studies, Van Craenenbroeck argues that both the PF-deletion and the pro-theory of ellipsis are needed to account for the full range of elliptical phenomena attested in natural language. The first case study focuses on instances of stranding to the right of a sluiced wh-phrase: prepositions in English (What about?) and demonstrative pronouns in southern Dutch dialects (Wie dat? 'who that'). Van Craenenbroeck gives both of these phenomena a PF-deletion analysis, which turns out to have considerable repercussions for the structure of the left periphery and the syntax of wh-movement. Specifically, while minimal wh-phrases move from their IP-internal base position to specCP, complex ones are base-generated in the (split) left periphery. The second case study is concerned with Short Do Replies in southern Dutch dialects, a type of contradictory reply that at first sight bears a close resemblance to English VP-ellipsis. Van Craenenbroeck shows that in this case the ellipsis site is best represented as a null, structureless proform that is licensed by the head of a high PolP. Moreover, this pronominal is argued to occur in two other dialectal constructions as well: contradictory replies of the type Da's nie 'that is not' found in Brabant Dutch, and the occurrence of subject clitics and agreement endings on the words for yes and no in Southern Dutch dialects (e.g. Ja-n-s 'yes-PLURAL-they'). The Syntax of Ellipsis will be of interest to scholars of the left periphery, wh-movement, and Dutch dialects.

Book Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar

Download or read book Describing and Modeling Variation in Grammar written by Andreas Dufter and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been acknowledged. On the methodological side, there is an ongoing competition between large-scale statistical analyses and investigations that rely more heavily on introspection and elicited grammaticality judgements. The aim of this volume is to bridge the 'cultural gap' between empirical-variationist and formal-theoretical approaches in linguistics. The volume offers case studies that seek to combine corpus-based and competence-based approaches to the description of variation. In doing so, it opens up new avenues for locating and analyzing variability, both at the level of the individual speaker and between speakers of different dialects and generations. The contributions document the plurality of current research into models of grammatical competence that live up to the challenge of variationist data. More specifically, parameter-based (e.g. Minimalist), constraint-based (e.g. Optimality Theoretic), and usage-based (e.g. Construction Grammar) approaches to variation are discussed. The volume therefore is of interest to a broad public within linguistics, including syntacticians of different theoretical persuasion, morphologists and sociolinguists. While a majority of contributions addresses facets of variation in English and German, the volume also includes variationist studies written by specialists of French, Dutch, Icelandic, and Uralic.

Book Dutch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frans Hinskens
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2013-11-27
  • ISBN : 3110261332
  • Pages : 960 pages

Download or read book Dutch written by Frans Hinskens and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook aims at a state-of-the-art overview of both earlier and recent research into older, newer and emerging non-standard varieties (dialects, regiolects, sociolects, ethnolects, substandard varieties), transplanted varieties and daughter languages (mixed languages, creoles) of Dutch. The discussion concerns the theoretical embedding, potential interdisciplinary connections and the methodology of the studies at issue, keeping in mind comparability and generalizability of the findings. It presents general concepts and approaches in the broad domain of Dutch variation linguistics and the main developments in different varieties of Dutch and their offspring abroad. The book counts 47 chapters, written by over 40 scholars from the Netherlands, Flanders, Germany, England, South Africa, Australia, the USA, and Jamaica.