Michiel de Vaan

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michiel de Vaan plays a role.

Journal

ISSN 0108-8416 | E-ISSN 2212-9715

Titles

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Comparative linguistics | Historical linguistics
This paper investigates the etymology of Dutch mooi ‘beautiful’. It argues that Dutch mooi and Dutch mouw ‘sleeve’, which are not directly related within Germanic, may be derived from the same Proto-Indo-European root *muH- ‘to move’. read more
Middle Dutch and Middle High German possess a femininizing suffix ‑erse, of which reflexes survive in some modern dialects. Its Old Germanic preform arose from the grafting of Latin ‑issa onto the masculine suffix *‑ārja‑ in Dutch and German dialects closest to the Gallo-Romance area in the… read more
Vaan, Michiel de 2020 Gallo-Romance lenition in Germanic loanwords: The case of ‘market’NOWELE 73:2, pp. 221–235 | Article
One of the earliest changes affecting Western Romance before the end of the Roman Empire was the lenition of intervocalic *p, *t, *k to *b, *d, *g. We find its effects in a number of Romance loanwords in West Germanic. The word for ‘market’ has not played a role in this discussion because it is… read more
Vaan, Michiel de 2014 The emergence of Dutch: Consonant changes until 1200Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, III, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Patrick V. Stiles (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article
In discussions on the history of Dutch phonology, vowels have played a more prominent role than consonants. In some recent and forthcoming publications (de Vaan 2012, forthcoming a, forthcoming b), I show that the consonants also hold important clues for language history in the Low Countries. The… read more
Vaan, Michiel de 2012 Dutch koon and Proto-Germanic "jaw, cheek"NOWELE Volume 64/65 (April 2012), pp. 105–115 | Article