Dutch Studies: Language and Linguistics

Abstract

the period 2008–2012 has been productive and full of innovation. For instance, in 2012 the association anela launched its new online Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics . the first issue contains a variety of articles, written in Dutch or english, with several focusing on Dutch, though the journal includes material on general linguistics as well. the journal Taal en Tongval has also followed the open-access revolution. the first online issue (vol. 63 for 2011, published in autumn 2012) is available at . the Society for germanic Linguistics published a special issue of their journal on Dutch linguistics in 2010, JGL, 22.4, ‘Dutch between english and german’, with five articles on historical issues, three on language acquisition and attrition, and one on pragmatics. anthony F. Buccini, ‘Between Pre-german and Pre-english: the Origin of Dutch’ (301–14), explains the most peculiar phonological features of Dutch (especially the lack of secondary i-umlaut) as the result of language contact between Ingvaeonic-speaking slaves and the Frankish dialects of their masters. Michiel de Vaan, ‘another Frisianism in coastal Dutch: traam, treem, triem “crossbeam”’ (315–36), relates the presence of /i./ in coastal Dutch to language contact between Frankish and Frisian. Jessica nowak, ‘On the emergence of an eighth ablaut class in german and Dutch’ (361–80), points to a process of analogy in both Dutch and german where the ablaut pattern in the preterite and past participle of class II verbs has been extended onto other strong verbs. Janneke Diepeveen and Freek Van de Velde, ‘adverbial Morphology: how Dutch and german are Moving away from english’ (381–402), argue that, in contrast to english (which uses morphological markers to distinguish adjectives from adverbs), Dutch and german ‘draw a dividing line between nP-modifiers and clause-level modifiers.’