(Extra)Ordinary letters - Judith Nobels
a view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch
KORTE INHOUD
"In the National Archives in Kew, London, a treasure is kept which is of great importance for the linguistic history of the Dutch language: a collection of seventeenth-century letters written by men and women from various social backgrounds. Given the fact that much of the linguistic research of seventeenth-century Dutch has been perforce based on printed texts and linguistic data produced by a relatively small number of upper-class - usually male - writers, not much is known with certainty about the everyday Dutch of seventeenth-century lower- and middle-class people. The letters hidden in the National Archives can change this. In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective. Since it is the first time that these letters are investigated on such a large scale, several topics are treated: forms of address, reflexivity and reciprocity, negation, schwa-apocope, diminutives, and the genitive and alternative constructio...
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2013Uitgever: Utrecht, LOT, 2013.Reeks: LOT dissertation series320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9460931111ISBN-13: 9789460931116Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2013, paperback, mooi exemplaar, proefschrift [Auteur: Nobels, Judith] [Taal: nl] [Uitgever: LOT] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: (Extra)ordinary letters / a view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch]
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Paperback. (8),iv,320 pp.; 24x16 cm. Thesis, Leiden. "Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics". Text in English. - Very good, as new. See picture. Price when new is 36 euro. [(Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch.]
