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When typological rara become productive: the extension of grammatical agreement in Dutch dialects Ghent University
Variatie en verandering in het Nederlandse genus: een multi-disciplinair perspectief Ghent University
Changing pronominal gender in Dutch: transmission or diffusion? Ghent University
Paden van paradigmatische vereenvoudiging: morfologie, fonologie of pragmatiek? Ghent University
The Dutch dialects display massive variation in their verbal paradigms. Traditionally, this variation has been explained as the result of developments in phonology, such as deletion of inflectional endings such as schwa, –t and –n, and pragmatics, such as the replacement of the 2sg. pronoun du with the honorific jij, which caused the s-ending to disappear. More recently, it has been proposed that morphology, more specifically paradigmatic ...
‘Einheitsplural’ in Low German and Dutch: a natural syncretism? Ghent University
Many continental West Germanic dialects show so-called ‘Einheitsplural’, i.e. the phenomenon that verbs receive the same ending in the first, second and third person plural. In the present tense, Einheitsplural is found in northern dialects of Dutch (including Standard Dutch), the Frisian dialects, and Low German dialects. Three types of explanations have been proposed for the emergence of the Einheitsplural: Einheitsplural can emerge 1) through ...