24.1520, Books: Dutch: Willemyns (Ed)

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Subject: 24.1520, Books: Dutch: Willemyns (Ed)

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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:11:29
From: Zach Borenstein [zach.borenstein at oup.com]
Subject: Dutch: Willemyns (Ed)

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Title: Dutch 
Subtitle: Biography of a Language 
Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/TheoreticalDescriptiveLinguistic/?view=usa&ci=9780199858712 

Editor: Roland Willemyns

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199858712 Pages: 312 Price: U.S. $ 34.95

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Written In: English  (eng)

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