Essential Dutch Dictionary: Teach Yourself
Essential Dutch Dictionary: Teach Yourself

Author: Gerdi Quist

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2012-03-09

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1444131761

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With over 30,000 translations, including everyday idioms and expressions, Essential Dutch Dictionary is the perfect tool to support your Dutch learning. This new edition is fully updated with a guide to usage and insights from the author to help you learn and remember new words and phrases. New interactive features: NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at: www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of the Netherlands.

A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian
A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian

Author: Gertjan Postma

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9027263531

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Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857–1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this language island in the tropical state of Espirito Santo. This monograph offers the first synchronic grammar of this language. After a historical introduction, the book offers a systematic description of its phonology, morphology and syntax. The language is contrasted with its European sisters, more particularly High German, Dutch, and Frisian. It highlights various phenomena that will presumably contribute to the ongoing theoretical debate on the Germanic verbal system. It provides new data on cluster V2, do-support, and the two infinitives. As to the infinitival syntax, the language shows remarkable parallels to the system of Frisian. As to the rich Pomeranian system of subtractive morphology, the phonological account that is offered, will be important for the ongoing discussion of the abstractness of phonological representations. Finally, Pomeranian is a welcome addition to the set of languages on which our etymological understanding of West Germanic is based.

The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Textual Heritage. Philological Perspectives on Authenticity and Audience Design
The Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Textual Heritage. Philological Perspectives on Authenticity and Audience Design

Author: Cefas van Rossem

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 9789460932618

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Creoles are new languages. We know when they emerged. Documentary sources of their early stages are therefore crucial for finding out how they emerged. However, the authenticity of these sources should be looked at critically. Virgin Islands Dutch Creole did not exist before 1672 and was mentioned for the first time in 1736. In the following decades Moravian and Lutheran missionaries started a tradition of translating Christian texts into this new language of the Danish Antilles (US Virgin Islands). On the surface of it, these texts look bookish, influenced by missionary jargon, Dutch-like, and perhaps even artificial. This dissertation studies the authenticity of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole texts from a philological perspective.

Letters as Loot
Letters as Loot

Author: Gijsbert Rutten

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2014-11-14

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9027269572

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The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which comprises letters from the lower, middle and upper ranks, written by men as well as women. The book discusses the key issues of formulaic language and the degree of orality of private letters, it questions the importance of letter-writing manuals, and reveals remarkable patterns of social, regional and gender variation in a wide range of linguistic features. Arguing for writing experience as an important factor in historical linguistics generally, the book offers numerous new perspectives on the history of Dutch. The monograph is of interest to a wide readership, ranging from scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Germanic linguistics, sociology and social history to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change.

Ik hou van groente en fruit I Love to Eat Fruits and Vegetables
Ik hou van groente en fruit I Love to Eat Fruits and Vegetables

Author: Shelley Admont

Publisher: KidKiddos Books Ltd.

Published: 2023-03-17

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1772687251

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Dutch English bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Dutchas their second language. Jimmy, the little bunny, likes to eat candy. He sneaks into the kitchen to find a bag with candies that was hidden inside the cupboard. What happens right after Jimmy climbs up to reach the bag of candy? You will find out when you read this illustrated children’s book. Since that day, he starts to develop healthy eating habits and even likes to eat his fruits and vegetables.