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Project

Sabbatical Albert Oosterhof: Applied Dutch studies: Language variation and grammar studies in applied perspective

The sabbatical period is aimed at carrying out a number of sub-studies in the field of Dutch grammar, language variation and language proficiency. This will include the following:
topics are published and presented:
- omission of language elements in headlines: prepositions (in collaboration with research group GIST, UGent);
- comparative correlatives in Dutch: constructions with the longer… the meer and influence of English;
- variable article use in dialects of Dutch: proper names in Brabant and Limburg dialects;
- the use of forms of address in different text genres in German and Dutch language material (in collaboration with Birgitta Meex, German language group, Antwerp Campus);
- the use of forms of address in obituaries and other family announcements;
- multilingualism, language policy and the debate on the language of education in the countries of the language area (in
collaboration with Ulrike Vogl - UGent, Eric Mijts - University of Aruba, Sita Doerga Misier Patadien - I.O.L. Paramaribo, Nele Nivelle – Hasselt University, Lieke Nijland – Utrecht University);
- a Flemish dialect as tonal language, in which the role of pitch is examined in the difference between singular and plural words with /l/ in the coda in certain western Flemish dialects (in collaboration with Kathy Rys, Institute for the Dutch Language, Leiden );
- the language advice on the use of back and forth in Flemish varieties of Dutch.
- imperatives in Dutch: Corpus research into participatory imperatives based on the approach of Gertjan Postma (in collaboration with Evie Coussé, University of Göteborg)
- polar sensitivity, weasley constructions and other phenomena from sentence semantics in Surinamese Dutch (proposal to Sita Doerga Misier-Patadien, Paramaribo).
The aim is to carry out these research plans, which have not been fully developed in recent years, during the academic year. Every topic should become an (international) publication. The aim is therefore to produce a dozen articles.

Date:1 Oct 2021 →  30 Sep 2022
Keywords:language variation, grammar, language proficiency
Disciplines:Dutch language