The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics- 1989: Issues and Controversies, Old and New

Shannon, Thomas F.,Snapper, Johan P.

ISBN 10: 0819183385 / ISBN 13: 9780819183385

Published by University Press of America, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics- 1989: Issues and Controversies, Old and New
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819183385
• ISBN 13: 9780819183385
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This volume, the third in a continuing series of publications produced by the Dutch Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley, contains papers presented at the second Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics, held in 1989.

Contributions: Substrate Words in Dutch; Some Apparent Cases of Submorphemic Attraction in Early Dutch and Older Germanic Languages; The "Netherlandization" of the Low German West; Did Henric van Veldken Write in a German Dialect; The Diphthongization of Middle i and the Theory of Brabant's Expansion; Dutch Influence on American English and Indonesian; Prestige Language and Language Shift; A Linguistic Michelson-Morley Experiment? Dutch Indirect Object and the Inference of Successful Transfer; Tone Segments in the Description of Dutch Intonation; Dutch Word Stress Assignment: Extrametricality and Feet; On the Relation between Morphology and Syllable Structure: Universal Preference Laws in Dutch. Co-published with the American Association for Netherlandic Studies.

Review

This is a valuable collection of essays....New views are presented or applied and standard opinions are challenged.>>>> (Theo Janssen Frans Van Coestem)

Your book offers a series of high-quality articles in a broad field of literary, philological and linguistic themes of current interest.>>>> (Theo Janssen)

Your book offers a series of high-quality articles in a broad field of literary, philological and linguistic themes of current interest. (Theo Janssen)

This is a valuable collection of essays....New views are presented or applied and standard opinions are challenged. (Theo Janssen Frans Van Coestem)