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Taal en Tongval - Volume 71, Issue 1, 2019
Volume 71, Issue 1, 2019
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De codificatie van het Limburgs
More LessAbstractThe codification of Limburgish: motives and their patterns
Limburgish, the regional language spoken in the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg, shows characteristics of standardization: from the nineteenth century onwards, an increasing number of dictionaries, grammars, and spelling guides of various Limburgish dialects have been published. This shows that Limburgish undergoes codification, one of the major aspects in standardization processes. This article explores the codification process of Limburgish. First, an overview is given of the various codification materials to be found for the dialects spoken in the Dutch province of Limburg. An investigation of the introductory parts of these materials is conducted to answer the question what motives the authors of the various publications have to codify a particular Limburgish dialect. It appears that the amount of codification materials increases drastically from approximately 1980 onwards, and that the motives concerned with dialect protection or preservation prevail in the publications after the Second World War, suggesting that the decline of active dialect use in the last decades is an important motive for the codification of the dialects of Limburg.
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Over etwat, etwuk en iets
Authors: Anne-Sophie Ghyselen & Roxane VandenbergheAbstractOn etwat, etwuk and iets: geography and dynamics of the indefinite pronoun (for things) in West-Flanders
This paper focuses on the geography and dynamics of indefinite pronoun variants in West-Flanders (Belgium). Whereas traditional dialect data show etwat (‘something’) as being the traditional West-Flemish dialect variant, recent studies have attested a new variant in the area: etwuk. This paper addresses the questions (1) where this new dialect variant is used, (2) by whom, (3) how it relates to other variants of the indefinite pronoun and to the interrogative pronoun variants and (4) whether the grammatical context in which it occurs is of any influence. To answer these questions, we analyse 10.000 surveys collected in 2018 in 249 West-Flemish locations. Given that a sample of this size is difficult to analyse using traditional dialectological methods, we introduce generalized additive mixed-effects regression as a means of simultaneously analyzing the diatopic, diastratic and diachronic variation in these surveys (cf. Wieling et al. 2014:689). These generalized additive mixed-effects models reveal striking dynamics in the pronominal system in West-Flanders: the variant etwuk is clearly taking over the role of etwat as dialectal indefinite pronoun, with the region of the cities Ieper and Poperinge as ‘expansion tank’. The rise of the non-standard pronoun etwuk is remarkable, given that Flanders is generally marked by dialect shift and dialect levelling (usually in favour of the standard language). We will argue that the pronominal changes in West-Flanders can be interpreted as a sign of linguistic glocalisation, with etwuk as means of indexing regional identity in times of homogenizing informal language use.
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De herkomst van het Nederlandse woord Bargoens
More LessAbstractThe origin of the Dutch word Bargoens
No definitive light has yet been shed on the origin of the Dutch word Bargoens. Etymological dictionaries present two explanations as the most probable provenance: one suggests that Bargoens is derived from Bourgondisch, the other that it is a borrowing from Fr. baragouin ‘incomprehensible language’, which is itself from the Breton bara gwin ‘bread, wine’, the Breton language being incomprehensible to the French. The present article rejects both these explanations and proposes a new one, based mainly on the many written variants of Bargoens and its synonym Brigade. Additional support for this claim is found in the origin of Gargoens and Arragoens, the meaning and form of which are related to Bargoens. Via its variant Bragoens the word Bargoens can be connected to the verbal stem brag.
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