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Het afschalen van het Afrikaans : een politieke stommiteit Ghent University
Afrikaans is a partly creolised language, based on Dutch (dialects). It originated as the lingua franca of the dominated population of servants and slaves (the bruinmense), and was taken over by the dominant white population, which standardised it and developed it into a fully-fledged cultural language, comparable with other small Germanic languages such as Danish or Norwegian. It is the only example of a ‘creoloid’ that reached that level. ...
Spaanse woorden in het Nederlands Ghent University
New resources for the study of Southern Dutch dialect syntax Ghent University
Het gesproken corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse dialecten Ghent University
In this paper, we report on the construction of a linguistically annotated pilot corpus of the southern Dutch dialects, based on existing tape recordings from the 1960s and 1970s.The corpus provides audio aligned transcriptions in two layers, one closer to the dialect and one closer to Standard Dutch, the latter of which is part-of-speech and syntactically tagged. The corpus is intended to facilitate large-scale research into the syntactic ...
A parsed corpus of Southern Dutch dialects Ghent University
Dialectloket Ghent University
Implicational scales in colloquial Belgian Dutch Ghent University
Dialectcompetentie en functionaliteit van het dialect in Vlaanderen anno 2013 Ghent University
This study focuses on the dialect vitality in Flanders anno 2013. On the basis of a survey conducted among 543 Flemish university students, it is studied to what degree Flemish students still consider themselves competent dialect speakers and, if they indicate mastering their dialect, in which situations they use it. By comparing the gathered data to survey data from Van Keymeulen (1993) en Willemyns (1979), perceptual evidence is provided for ...