German and Dutch in Contrast: Synchronic, Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

German and Dutch in Contrast

Synchronic, Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives

Edited by: Gunther De Vogelaer , Dietha Koster and Torsten Leuschner

Volume 11 in the series Konvergenz und Divergenz

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668476

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About this book

Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of a "Germanic Sandwich", i.e. the hypothesis that sets of genetically related languages diverge in systematic ways in diverse domains of the linguistic system. Its contributions set out to test this approach against new phenomena or data from synchronic, diachronic and, for the first time in a Sandwich-related volume, psycholinguistic perspectives. With topics ranging from nickname formation to the IPP (aka 'Ersatzinfinitiv'), from the grammaticalisation of the definite article to /s/-retraction, and from the role of verb-second order in the acquisition of L2 English to the psycholinguistics of gender, the volume appeals to students and specialists in modern and historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, language pedagogy and cognitive science, providing a wealth of fresh insights into the relationships of German with its closest relatives while highlighting the potential inherent in the integration of different methodological traditions.

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Gunther De Vogelaer & Dietha Koster, University of Münster, Germany; Torsten Leuschner, Ghent University, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction – German and Dutch in contrast: synchronic, diachronic and psycholinguistic perspectives Gunther De Vogelaer, Dietha Koster and Torsten Leuschner Open Access Download PDF	1
Part 1: Synchronic Perspectives
Nickname formation in West Germanic: German Jessi and Thomson meet Dutch Jess and Tommie and English J-Bo and Tommo Sebastian Kürschner Open Access Download PDF	15
Analogues of the way-construction in German and Dutch: another Germanic sandwich? Tanja Mortelmans and Elena Smirnova Open Access Download PDF	47
Lice in the fur of our language? German irrelevance particles between Dutch and English Tom Bossuyt Open Access Download PDF	77
IPP in Afrikaans: a corpus-based investigation and a comparison with Dutch and German Peter Dirix, Liesbeth Augustinus and Frank Van Eynde Open Access Download PDF	109
Part 2: Diachronic Perspectives
The grammaticalisation of definite articles in German, Dutch, and English: a microtypological approach Mirjam Schmuck Open Access Download PDF	145
A diachronic contrastive study of sentence-internal capitalisation in Dutch and German Jessica Nowak Open Access Download PDF	179
Middle High German and modern Flemish s‑retraction in /rs/-clusters Joachim Kokkelmans Open Access Download PDF	213
Part 3: Psycholinguistic Perspectives
The role of verb-second word order for L1 German, Dutch and Norwegian L2 English learners: a grammar competition analysis Leah S. Bauke Open Access Download PDF	241
Syntactic or semantic gender agreement in Dutch, German and German learner Dutch: a speeded grammaticality judgement task Gunther De Vogelaer, Johanna Fanta, Greg Poarch, Sarah Schimke and Lukas Urbanek Open Access Download PDF	271
Subtle differences, rigorous implications: German and Dutch representation of tense-aspect features in SLA research of Spanish Paz González and Tim Diaubalick Open Access Download PDF	299
Food for psycholinguistic thought on gender in Dutch and German: a literature review on L1 and L2 production and processing Dietha Koster and Hanneke Loerts Open Access Download PDF	329

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (German studies, Dutch studies, modern and historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science)
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 356
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 35
- Tables: 55
Keywords: Germanic Sandwich; contrastive linguistics; German; Dutch

eBook

Published: March 9, 2020
ISBN: 9783110668476

Hardcover

Published: March 9, 2020
ISBN: 9783110668391