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Turkish in the Netherlands

Development of a new variety?
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Abstract

This paper is about Dutch influence on the variety of Turkish spoken by immigrants in the Netherlands. The community is under constant pressure to shift to Dutch, but maintenance figures are nevertheless very high. The result is a contact situation in which the entire community is bilingual; everyday interaction features much codeswitching and the minority language Turkish undergoes contact-induced changes in both lexicon and grammar. Often, these changes are direct borrowings from Dutch. In this paper, we will be searching for evidence of structural change in the Turkish spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) by second generation immigrants, and see whether these changes can be traced back to Dutch influence.

Abstract

This paper is about Dutch influence on the variety of Turkish spoken by immigrants in the Netherlands. The community is under constant pressure to shift to Dutch, but maintenance figures are nevertheless very high. The result is a contact situation in which the entire community is bilingual; everyday interaction features much codeswitching and the minority language Turkish undergoes contact-induced changes in both lexicon and grammar. Often, these changes are direct borrowings from Dutch. In this paper, we will be searching for evidence of structural change in the Turkish spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) by second generation immigrants, and see whether these changes can be traced back to Dutch influence.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Ethnolects as a multidimensional phenomenon 7
  6. Applying language technology to detect shift effects 27
  7. Generational differences in pronominal usage in Spanish reflecting language and dialect contact in a bilingual setting 45
  8. Personal pronoun variation in language contact 63
  9. Turkish in the Netherlands 87
  10. The reflection of historical language contact in present-day Dutch and Swedish 103
  11. The impact of German on Schleife Sorbian 119
  12. Detecting contact effects in pronunciation 131
  13. Language contact and phonological contrast 155
  14. Translating cultures within the EU 181
  15. Name index 219
  16. Subject index 223
Language Contact
This chapter is in the book Language Contact
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.28.06dog

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Ethnolects as a multidimensional phenomenon 7
  6. Applying language technology to detect shift effects 27
  7. Generational differences in pronominal usage in Spanish reflecting language and dialect contact in a bilingual setting 45
  8. Personal pronoun variation in language contact 63
  9. Turkish in the Netherlands 87
  10. The reflection of historical language contact in present-day Dutch and Swedish 103
  11. The impact of German on Schleife Sorbian 119
  12. Detecting contact effects in pronunciation 131
  13. Language contact and phonological contrast 155
  14. Translating cultures within the EU 181
  15. Name index 219
  16. Subject index 223
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