Historical Diaglossia and the Selection of Multiple Norms: Mijand Mijnas 1st Person Singular Object Pronouns in 17th- and 18th-Century Dutch
This paper argues that the Dutch sociolinguistic situation in the 17th and 18th centuries should be analyzed as diaglossic, that is, involving a wide spectrum of variation in between localized spoken dialects and the supposed written standard. In fact, multiple instances of norm selection for writing render this diaglossic situation even more complex. The paper shows that multiple norm selection even occurred in cases when a strict and simple norm was selected early on, that is, in the late 16th–early 17th century. The case study is based on the Letters as Loot Corpus comprising private letter... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Journal of Germanic Linguistics ; volume 34, issue 1, page 35-62 ; ISSN 1470-5427 1475-3014 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29051886 |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542721000076 |