Tanja Simons
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tanja Simons plays a role.
Articles
2014 Language norms and language use in eighteenth-century Dutch: Final n and the genitive Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 49–72 | Article
The chapter discusses language norms and language use in the Northern Netherlands in the eighteenth century. The eighteenth century is traditionally considered a period of consolidation, i.e. of ongoing codification of the seventeenth-century standard variety. So far, the influence of… read more
2013 From ul to U.E.: A socio-historical study of Dutch forms of address in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century private letters Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 67–90 | Article
In this paper, the use of forms of address in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch private letters is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective. While most research has focused on the origin and regional spread of certain forms of address, the present paper will take into account the… read more
2012 Letters as loot: Confiscated Letters filling major gaps in the History of Dutch Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 139–162 | Article
In this contribution, we will introduce the recently rediscovered collection of Dutch documents from the second half of the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, comprising over 38,000 letters, both commercial and private ones. The socio-historical linguistic value of these private… read more