Dutch 17th-century texts on the practice and theory of painting are notoriously rare. This unfortunate situation transforms every text from about 1600-1670 which in any way - directly or indirectly - is dealing with painting ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe Dutch faded partitives and analyze the syntax and semantics of the construction. It will be suggested that no fundamental syntactic or semantic differences exist between faded and ...

In this article, I compare Latin and Middle Dutch formulas in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century charters written in the city of Utrecht. My comparison shows that the vernacular formulas in the opening and closing parts ...

The poet and critic Adriaan van der Hoop, Jr (1802-1841) is known in literary history as a predecessor of the literary renewal of the 1830’s, known as ‘Young Holland’. The innovative character of Van der Hoop’s literary ...

The present paper examines whether prosodic determinants influence the choice of grammatical alternatives in written language use. More particularly, it is investigated whether the order of the participle and the finite ...

Dit artikel behandelt de uitdrukking van zinsnegatie in het Westvlaamse dialect vanuit een generatief perspectief. Er wordt aangetoond dat de distributie van het negatieve prefix en- kan worden beschreven in relatie tot ...

Het Belgisch Nederlands kent een conditionele constructie met moest(en) die in het Nederlands Nederlands niet voorkomt. Onderzoek in het Corpus Gesproken Nederlands laat zien dat de constructie met moest(en) veel frequenter ...