From dialectal chaos to linguistic uniformity? Exploring the role of standardization and dialect contact in Early Modern Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel
process of normative pressure leading to variant reduction, recent
empirical research shows that standard languages are more likely to
emerge in the everyday language use of the wider population
through bottom-up processes of dialect contact. For Dutch, such a
bottom-up perspective has only been applied to the seventeenthcentury Northern ...