This article shows - starting from A. de Haas' boek on the Dutch theatre in de 18th century - how Joannes Nomsz in his drama Anthonius Hambroek, of de Belegering van Formoza (1775) tries to combine the conventions of the ...

Building on an extensive written corpus of formal and informal Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, this study tackles the complex distribution of non-anaphoric er "there" in adjunct-initial presentative sentences such as Op ...

The poetry of Kees Ouwens is usually received with great admiration and enthusiasm, but at the same time a number of his readers criticize him for writing poetry that is too difficult to understand. Ambiguous syntax, ...

From the very beginning of his career, Albert Verwey (1865-1937), Dutch critic and poet, showed a keen interest in literary history. He paid special attention to the poetry of the nineteenth century. Deliberately, Verwey ...

This contribution presents a new method of stylistic analysis of 16th and 17th century plays based on statistical evidence. Our first aim is to describe the differences in length of coherent sequences of words belonging ...

Pieter Cornelisz van der Mersch (ca. 1545-1629), also known as Piero, was active as a rhetorician (rederijker) for more than half a century, not only as the so called 'fool' of the Leiden chamber De Witte Acoleyen, but ...

The author of an instruction sometimes experiences the problem of how to present two simultaneous acts, because they can not be read in one and the same moment. In Dutch cooking recipes we often find two kinds of constructions, ...