Language and Space : : An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. / Volume 3, : Dutch / / ed. by Frans Hinskens, Johan Taeldeman.

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 di...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK] , 30/3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (937 p.) :; 39 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction to the Language and Space series
  • List of maps
  • List of tables and figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliographical details of cited atlases, dictionaries and grammars
  • Map of regions and provinces
  • 1. Introduction to the volume
  • I. History of the field
  • 2. History and development of Dutch dialect research
  • 3. Language and space in Dutch: Recent developments and new research areas
  • 4. Language and space in Dutch: Wishes for the future
  • II. The major dialect regions of Dutch: linguistic structure, spectrum of variation and dynamics
  • 5. A regional history of Dutch
  • 6. The spectrum of spatial varieties of Dutch: The historical genesis
  • 7. The classification of the dialects of Dutch
  • 8. Unravelling the complexities of variation and change in and beyond the present-day dialects of Dutch: Finding one’s way through the woods
  • 9. The southwestern dialect area: Phonology
  • 10. The grammar of the southwestern dialects
  • 11. Southwestern Dutch dialects today
  • 12. East Flemish: Phonology
  • 13. Between Brabantic and West Flemish: East Flemish morphology and syntax
  • 14. Recent developments in the East Flemish dialect area
  • 15. The dialects of the Brabant region: Phonological properties
  • 16. The dialects of Brabant: Grammatical properties
  • 17. Recent developments in the mid southern dialects
  • 18. Phonological features of Limburgian dialects
  • 19. The Limburg dialects: Grammatical properties
  • 20. Recent developments in the Limburg dialect region
  • 21. Holland and Utrecht: Phonology and phonetics
  • 22. Holland and Utrecht: Morphology and syntax
  • 23. Holland and Utrecht: More recent developments
  • 24. Low Saxon phonology
  • 25. The Low Saxon dialects: Morphology and syntax
  • 26. Recent evolutions in the position and structure of Low Saxon. With an excursus on the new polders in Flevoland
  • III. Supra-regional and regionally-unbound aspects
  • 27. Geographical patterns of lexical variation in the Dutch-speaking area
  • 28. Supra-regional characteristics of colloquial Dutch
  • 29. Non-standard varieties in the new media
  • 30. Perception of geographically conditioned linguistic variation
  • 31. Attitude measurements in the Low Countries
  • 32. Supraregional patterns and language change
  • 33. Dialectometry
  • 34. Research results from on-line dialect databases and dynamic dialect maps
  • 35. Grammar & Geography or vice versa
  • 36. Variation between and within Sign Language of the Netherlands and Flemish Sign Language
  • IV. Dynamics of contact varieties of Dutch
  • 37. Belgian Dutch
  • 38. Language varieties in the province of Fryslân
  • 39. Ethnolects of Dutch
  • 40. Varieties of Dutch / Dutch as a minority language in Germany
  • 41. A West Flemish dialect as a minority language in the north of France
  • 42. Between Dutch and Indonesian: Colonial Dutch in time and space
  • 43. The Dutch Language in the USA
  • 44. Dutch in Suriname
  • 45. The Dutch language in Australia
  • 46. Dutch Creole in the Caribbean
  • 47. Afrikaans
  • Indexes