36.1153, Books: Setting the Standard: Lismont (2025)

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Subject: 36.1153, Books: Setting the Standard: Lismont (2025)

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Date: 04-Apr-2025
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Setting the Standard: Lismont (2025)


Title: Setting the Standard
Subtitle: Norms and usage in Early and Late Modern Dutch (1550-1850)
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
           http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0688

Author(s): Eline Lismont

Paperback
ISBN: 978-94-6093-473-5
Pages: 505
Price: €51,00

Abstract:

Traditional accounts of language standardisation often portray it as a
straightforward process, presuming that codified norms found in
spelling books, grammars, and schoolbooks are seamlessly integrated
into language use. This dissertation challenges this view by adopting
a historical-sociolinguistic perspective to investigate the interplay
between norms and usage during the standardisation history of Dutch
from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
To explore the influence of codified norms on usage, this study
compares developments in language norms, drawn from a corpus of
normative works, with patterns of variation and change in a
multi-genre usage corpus. Through systematic analyses of spelling and
grammatical features, it examines whether, how, and under what
conditions norms influenced language use. This research further
determines the impact of key factors, such as the socio-historical
context and the specific properties of the features, on the success of
prescriptive interventions.
By defining scenarios of prescriptive influence, this dissertation
offers new insights into the relationship between codified norms and
actual language use. The typological framework it introduces not only
deepens our understanding of Dutch standardisation but also has the
potential to inform comparative research in other languages and
historical contexts.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Language Family(ies): Dutch based




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