Dutch

Biography of a Language

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

More than 22 million people speak Dutch-primarily in Holland, Belgium, Suriname, and the Antilles. This book offers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the language in all its historical, geographic, and social aspects. In addition to providing a general introduction to the evolution of Dutch, Willemyns pays special attention to oft-neglected topics, such as the question of whether Dutchmen and Flemings are separated by a common language, and the contentious matter of the spread of Dutch abroad through colonization, which led to "exotic" variations such as Afrikaans, pidgins, and creoles.Dutch: Biography of a Language will appeal to students of Dutch and general readers interested in the history of the language.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-04-11
Mått:155 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199858712

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Roland Willemyns is Emeritus Professor of Dutch Linguistics at Vrije Universiteit Brussels

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All in all, Willemyns' biography of Dutch is a very dense book, clearly striving to provide as much information as possible on the history of Dutch. It remains, however, a very readable book, suitable for different groups of readers ranging from interested non-native speakers and foreigners to specialists in the Dutch language.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Who speaks Dutch and where? ; Chapter Two: Old Dutch. Its Ancestors and Its Contemporaries ; Chapter Three: Middle Dutch: Language and Literature ; Chapter Four: Early New Dutch 1500-1800 ; Chapter Five: Reunion and Secession: The Nineteenth Century ; Chapter Six: Twentieth Century: The Age of the Standard Language ; Chapter Seven: Colonial Dutch ; Chapter Eight: Afrikaans ; Chapter Nine: Progress or Decay? The future development of Dutch ; Chapter Ten: Chapter Main Sources and Further Reading