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Frans Hinskens, Johan Taeldeman
Walter de Gruyter, Nov 27, 2013 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 958 pages

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.

 

Contents

I History of the field
13
linguistic structure spectrum of variation and dynamics
81
III Supraregional and regionallyunbound aspects
512
IV Dynamics of contact varieties of Dutch 37 Belgian Dutch Walter Haeseryn
700

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Frans Hinskens, Meertens Instituut (KNAW) and VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Johan Taeldeman, University of Ghent, Belgium.