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Author Vaan, Michiel de, 1973- author

Title The dawn of Dutch : language contact in the western low countries before 1200 / Michiel de Vaan
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series NOWELE Supplement Series ; 30
North-Western European language evolution. Supplement ; 30.
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Dutch language -- Dialects -- History
Frisian language -- Dialects -- History
Languages in contact -- Netherlands
Dutch language -- Dialects
Frisian language -- Dialects
Languages in contact
Netherlands
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017053629
ISBN 9027264503
9789027264503