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Janus at the Millennium
This volume contains a selection of articles originally presented at the Tenth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies. These revised contributions, relating to the common theme of Janus and the perspective of time, examine Dutch language and culture from the U.S., Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Historical Linguistics, 1987
The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of individual languages. The theoretical issues range from phonology over morphology and syntax to the lexicon, as well as questions of historical dialectology, language contact, the theory of linguistic change, and problems of comparative reconstruction. The languages discussed are Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, most of the papers dealing with Germanic and Romance languages (especially English and French), but some being devoted to Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and Hittite.
Vantage Points
Vantage Points is a collection of essays concerning approaches to Dutch and Flemish literature, both present and past. They are offered by distinguished American and European colleagues in honor of Johan P. Snapper of the University of California at Berkeley on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. This volume represents an outstanding cross-section of current research on the literature, art, and culture of the Low Countries (Netherlands and Belgium). The articles cover a range of topics from the purely literary to broader artistic, sociocultural, and philosophical questions. Dutch and Flemish poetry, from the seventeenth century epic through the classical period and on to symbolist, modern...
The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics, 1989
This volume, the third in a continuing series of publications produced by the Dutch Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley, contains papers presented at the second Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics, held in 1989. Contributions: Substrate Words in Dutch; Some Apparent Cases of Submorphemic Attraction in Early Dutch and Older Germanic Languages; The "Netherlandization" of the Low German West; Did Henric van Veldken Write in a German Dialect; The Diphthongization of Middle i and the Theory of Brabant's Expansion; Dutch Influence on American English and Indonesian; Prestige Language and Language Shift; A Linguistic Michelson-Morley Experiment? Dutch Indirect Object and the Inference of Successful Transfer; Tone Segments in the Description of Dutch Intonation; Dutch Word Stress Assignment: Extrametricality and Feet; On the Relation between Morphology and Syllable Structure: Universal Preference Laws in Dutch. Co-published with the American Association for Netherlandic Studies.
