Inleiding tot de Homerische taal en metriek (original) (raw)

Homo caudatus.' Verbeelding en macht in de letteren

1989

Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n'est pas de son usage; comme de vray, il semble que nous n'avons d'autre mire de la vérité et de la raison que l'exemple et idée des opinions et usances du païs où nous sommes.' Michel de Montaigne 'The purpose is not really to indict the past, but to summon it to the attention of a suicidal, anachronistic present: you are a child of those centuries of lies, distortion and opportunism in high places, even among the holy of holies of intellectual objectivity.' Wole Soyinka 'De barbaren zijn de anderen ' Culturele verscheidenheid wordt zelden aanvaard als iets vanzelfsprekends. Integendeel, meestal wordt anders-zijn afgewezen en houdt de mens(elijk)heid op bij de grenzen van de eigen groep, het eigen land, het eigen ras, de eigen sekse, de eigen taal,

De oorsprong van ghe-als negatief-polair element in het Middelnederlands

2006

Gothic gain in origin a derivational verbal prefi x on a par with prefi xes like Modern Dutch ont-, be-and ver-, and the ancestor of Dutch and German ge-, shows the beginnings of a new use which was no longer derivational (altering the aktionsart of the verb) but infl ectional (perfective aspect). Postma (2002) notes that its Middle Dutch form, ghe-, seems to have developed into a prefi x that transforms a following verb into a negative polarity item. Our paper tries to account for this development by pointing out possible routes for such a reinterpretation, the most signifi cant of which is the appearance of ghe-as a marker on the infi nitive after specifi c modals, which we argue to have arisen out of a need for marking modals expressing dynamic modality as lexical verbs rather than auxiliaries-which the other modals, epistemic and deontic, were grammaticalizing into. The dialect of Brabant turned out to have reinterpreted KUNNEN as a negative polarity verb, partnered by KUNNEN as a negative polarity verb, partnered by KUNNEN MOGEN as HOEVEN is partnered by MOETEN in Modern Dutch. MOETEN in Modern Dutch.

Dialect en standaardtaal in contact: de vele vormen van het dialect in de Langstraat

Taal en Tongval

Dialect and standard language in contact. The many forms of the Langstraat dialect Over the past century, the dialects of the Langstraat region in the province of Noord-Brabant have structurally changed under the influence of the Dutch standard language. The younger dialect varieties that have emerged, have lost characteristic features through time and have adopted features of Standard Dutch. Despite convergence and dialect levelling, however, more variation arises with new forms that sometimes exhibit even more divergent features than their traditional counterparts. Moreover, all participants in the present study seem to use a diversity of linguistic forms and intermediate forms are all but fixated, and even one and the same speaker shows diversity in the use of his dialect.