The Dawn of Dutch
Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200
e-Book – Open Access
ISBN 9789027264503
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.
[NOWELE Supplement Series, 30] 2017. xviii, 613 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. xii–12
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Abbreviations | pp. xiii–14
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List of maps | pp. xv–xvi
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List of tables | pp. xvii–xviii
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Chapter 1. Aim and scope | pp. 1–2
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Chapter 2. Definitions of languages and stages | pp. 3–8
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Chapter 3. Sources | pp. 9–18
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Chapter 4. The spelling of Dutch | pp. 19–22
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Chapter 5. History of research on the ‘Frisian question’ in Belgium and the Netherlands | pp. 23–38
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Chapter 6. The western Low Countries in the Early and High Middle Ages | pp. 39–62
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Chapter 7. The study of language contact | pp. 63–74
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Chapter 8. Working hypothesis and approach | pp. 75–112
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Chapter 9. Palatalization of velars in Old and Middle Dutch | pp. 113–188
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Chapter 10. Other issues involving consonants | pp. 189–202
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Chapter 11. Fronting of stressed a to e | pp. 203–216
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Chapter 12. Rounding of a to o | pp. 217–230
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Chapter 13. Loss of nasals before voiceless fricatives | pp. 231–240
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Chapter 14. Breaking of e to jo, ju | pp. 241–242
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Chapter 15. WGm. *u and *o in coastal Dutch | pp. 243–390
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Chapter 16. WGm. *ū | pp. 391–404
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Chapter 17. WGm. *ea, *eo and *ō | pp. 405–430
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Chapter 18. WGm. *ǣ | pp. 431–440
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Chapter 19. Unrounding of *ǖ, *ȫ, *äü, and *iu | pp. 441–466
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Chapter 20. WGm. *ai | pp. 467–504
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Chapter 21. WGm. *au | pp. 505–514
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Chapter 22. Summary and conclusions | pp. 515–528
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Bibliography | pp. 529–559
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Index | pp. 561–614
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative