41. A West Flemish dialect as a minority language in the north of France

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction to the Language and Space series ix
4. List of maps xi
5. List of tables and figures xii
6. Abbreviations xvi
7. Bibliographical details of cited atlases, dictionaries and grammars xviii
8. Map of regions and provinces xx
9. 1. Introduction to the volume 1
10. I. History of the field
11. 2. History and development of Dutch dialect research 13
12. 3. Language and space in Dutch: Recent developments and new research areas 35
13. 4. Language and space in Dutch: Wishes for the future 60
14. II. The major dialect regions of Dutch: linguistic structure, spectrum of variation and dynamics
15. 5. A regional history of Dutch 81
16. 6. The spectrum of spatial varieties of Dutch: The historical genesis 100
17. 7. The classification of the dialects of Dutch 129
18. 8. Unravelling the complexities of variation and change in and beyond the present-day dialects of Dutch: Finding one’s way through the woods 142
19. 9. The southwestern dialect area: Phonology 150
20. 10. The grammar of the southwestern dialects 174
21. 11. Southwestern Dutch dialects today 194
22. 12. East Flemish: Phonology 211
23. 13. Between Brabantic and West Flemish: East Flemish morphology and syntax 235
24. 14. Recent developments in the East Flemish dialect area 255
25. 15. The dialects of the Brabant region: Phonological properties 277
26. 16. The dialects of Brabant: Grammatical properties 297
27. 17. Recent developments in the mid southern dialects 319
28. 18. Phonological features of Limburgian dialects 336
29. 19. The Limburg dialects: Grammatical properties 356
30. 20. Recent developments in the Limburg dialect region 378
31. 21. Holland and Utrecht: Phonology and phonetics 399
32. 22. Holland and Utrecht: Morphology and syntax 418
33. 23. Holland and Utrecht: More recent developments 443
34. 24. Low Saxon phonology 454
35. 25. The Low Saxon dialects: Morphology and syntax 476
36. 26. Recent evolutions in the position and structure of Low Saxon. With an excursus on the new polders in Flevoland 495
37. III. Supra-regional and regionally-unbound aspects
38. 27. Geographical patterns of lexical variation in the Dutch-speaking area 512
39. 28. Supra-regional characteristics of colloquial Dutch 532
40. 29. Non-standard varieties in the new media 556
41. 30. Perception of geographically conditioned linguistic variation 567
42. 31. Attitude measurements in the Low Countries 586
43. 32. Supraregional patterns and language change 602
44. 33. Dialectometry 624
45. 34. Research results from on-line dialect databases and dynamic dialect maps 646
46. 35. Grammar & Geography or vice versa 664
47. 36. Variation between and within Sign Language of the Netherlands and Flemish Sign Language 680
48. IV. Dynamics of contact varieties of Dutch
49. 37. Belgian Dutch 700
50. 38. Language varieties in the province of Fryslân 721
51. 39. Ethnolects of Dutch 739
52. 40. Varieties of Dutch / Dutch as a minority language in Germany 761
53. 41. A West Flemish dialect as a minority language in the north of France 782
54. 42. Between Dutch and Indonesian: Colonial Dutch in time and space 800
55. 43. The Dutch Language in the USA 821
56. 44. Dutch in Suriname 841
57. 45. The Dutch language in Australia 858
58. 46. Dutch Creole in the Caribbean 879
59. 47. Afrikaans 897
60. Indexes 919