Tijdschrift voor Taalbeheersing - Volume 39, Issue 3, 2017

Abstract Indebted documents: Empirical research on the comprehensibility of the reminder and the court summons in debt collection cases Every day, thousands of households receive documents concerning debt collection. Unsurprisingly, these documents have a great impact on the lives of many. Do these documents inform readers properly about basics such as the claim, the claimant and what to do when one disagrees? Read More

Abstract Stylistic advice concerning sentence complexity is often phrased in terms of sentence length. This paper examines the relations between sentence length on the one hand and structural complexity factors such as subordination, adverbial modifiers, noun phrase modifiers, coordinated constituents and dependency lengths on the other hand. The data come from an automatic analysis of about 40.000 sentences, taken fr Read More

Abstract Combined use of u and je in employment advertisements: On the grammatical and cultural context of forms of address This paper concerns the use of forms of address, especially the second-person pronouns je and u, in employment advertisements in the Netherlands and Flanders. An innovative aspect of our study is that we created a corpus of advertisements in which a special property is that there is a c Read More