Naar een pluricentrische Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst. Het gebruik van productiedata voor de beschrijving van nationale variatie.

Om van de Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst (ANS) een pluricentrische referentiegrammatica te maken is er nood aan systematisch onderzoek naar de verschillende grammaticale normen van de drie nationale standaardvariëteiten van het Nederlands, nl. Belgisch Nederlands (BN), Nederlands Nederlands (NN) en Surinaams Nederlands (SN). Op basis van bestaande methodologieën om grammaticale verschillen tussen standaardvariëteiten te beschrijven, zoals die van Taaladvies.net of de Duitse Variantengrammatik (cf. Dürscheid & Elspaß 2015), komen we tot een aantal vragen over de methodologie die de herziene ANS moet volgen. We gaan in op het gebruik van productiedata om nationale verschillen te beschrijven, met focus op een vaak ingezette frequentiemaat, nl. relatieve tokenfrequentie. Er wordt onderzocht (i) aan de hand van welke criteria kan worden nagegaan of grammaticale varianten al dan niet als equivalenten mogen gelden en (ii) met welke beperkingen rekening moet worden gehouden bij de interpretatie van nationale verschillen in relatieve tokenfrequentie. Verder bespreken we (iii) of er naast productiedata ook evaluatiedata verzameld moeten worden om te bepalen of varianten tot een nationale standaardvariëteit behoren en (iv) welke criteria gehanteerd moeten worden om op basis van productiedata nationale labels toe te kennen aan varianten. Over die vragen reflecteren we aan de hand van literatuuronderzoek en aan de hand van corpusonderzoek voor drie cases van grammaticale variatie tussen BN en NN.

Het Judeo-Grieks en de woordenlijst uit MS Vat. ebr 423

This paper examines a Judeo-Greek glossary including names and epithets for God found in ff. 1-8 of the manuscript MS Vat. ebr. 423, offering a sample of the edition and commentary that are currently being prepared by the author. The discussion of the text is preceded by a general introduction to the Judeo-Greek language, its literature and their characteristics, with a special emphasis on the biblical and medieval components of this tradition. A closer look at the text of MS Vat. ebr. 423 shows that it can be placed within a wider context of medieval and early modern biblical Judeo-Greek glossaries, while still being unique in its composition, given that it is the only alphabetically ordered, thematical glossary within the medieval and early modern Judeo-Greek tradition.

“Au cœur d’un amoureux, plus fidèle qu’heureux”: airs de cour in zeventiende-eeuwse Zuid-Nederlandse liedhandschriften in de Gentse Universiteitsbibliotheek

The library of the University of Ghent holds a valuable corpus of seventeenth century song manuscripts and alba amicorum from the Southern Low Countries. These manuscripts belonged mainly to young women of the bourgeoisie and/or the nobility. They collected their favourite songs and often had members from their circle of acquaintances completing the manuscripts. They appear to have had a strong preference for French profane songs from the air de cour repertoire. These songs were initially intended to be sung at the Parisian court. The airs de cour soon appeared in print, after which they were also picked up by the wealthy youth in the Southern Low Countries and were written down in their songbooks.

Met het hoofd in de Cloud. Het digitale sublieme in de Vlaamse en Nederlandse roman

The ever-increasing availability of information, made possible by the Internet today, transforms the way people perceive and acquire knowledge. The following contribution maps the effects of this epistemological shift in the literary form of the novel, hypothesizing that the notion of the sublime helps us understand how literary fiction dramatizes this shift. The sublime aesthetic, which attempts to present the unpresentable, reflects the way the unfathomable scope of the Internet challenges the imagination. My narrative analysis draws on key concepts from cyberculture and media theory, such as virtuality, and links them to narrative categories such as setting, character and narration. In that way, my research will improve our understanding of how Dutch and Flemish literary fiction reflects upon the Internet and how the genre of the novel may change because of it.

Regionale variatie in Middelnederlandse spellingsystemen

In this article I will focus on the dialect implications on vowel spelling in the 14th Century, which is before the onset of (spelling) standardisation processes that were spurred on by the development of printing. Central in my research is the question what historical sounds can be represented by the graphemes in use in nine cities. My method involves analysing and cataloguing grapheme-phoneme relationships of a selection of tokens taken from the fourteenth Century charter corpus CRM (Corpus Van Reenen – Mulder). More precisely, I want to find out to what extent vowel graphemes convey phonetic variation accurately across the regions.

De interactie tussen gender en homofoondominantie bij dt-fouten in de informele online communicatie van jongeren

We examine unintentional spelling errors (“dt-fouten”) on regular verb homophones in informal social media writing of Flemish adolescents. Our study reveals a high overall error rate: 28 percent of all target forms were spelled incorrectly. In addition, we found some clear patterns with regard to gender and the psycholinguistic variables that played a role in previous experimental research. Boys made significantly more verb spelling errors than girls. This effect of gender suggests that girls display greater error awareness or norm sensitivity. However, in both gender groups we found the same error pattern: a psycholinguistic effect of homophone dominance which causes more errors on the lower frequency form. These findings reveal that a greater focus on spelling errors may reduce the number of dt-errors, while it has no effect on the nature of those errors.

De rol van de Schelde in het Romeins transportsysteem (50 v.Chr. – 410 n. Chr.)

Archaeological sources make it impossible to deny that rivers served as pathways in the past. Conversely, the role of inland waterways in the Roman transport economy of northern Gaul has received little scholarly attention. This paper introduces a historical archaeological study of the transport network of the Roman-era Scheldt basin (presentday north-western Europe), with an emphasis on the role of waterways. As a starting point, this study works from the hypothesis of an integrated transport network, in which rivers, roads, and seaways link up to form a single system.