Marijke J. van der Wal

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Marijke J. van der Wal plays a role.

Book series

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (AHS)

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Terttu Nevalainen

ISSN 2214-1057

Titles

Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch

Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 2] 2014. xiii, 426 pp.

Subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 1] 2013. vii, 279 pp.

Subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

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Wal, Marijke J. van der 2024 Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles: Dutch letters written by economic migrants Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 225–257 | Chapter

In this paper, I intend to analyze, from a historical sociolinguistic perspective, the characteristics of Dutch letters written by economic migrants in the late eighteenth century. These letters, which are part of the Leiden Letters as Loot corpora, were confiscated by the English during the… read more

Krogull, Andreas, Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal 2017 Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770–1840): A genre-specific national language? Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 157–186 | Chapter

The paper focuses on three important themes in historical sociolinguistics: (1) the emergence of national language planning in the Netherlands around 1800, (2) the influence of historical prescriptivism on usage, and (3) genre as a crucial factor in explaining variation and change. The case study… read more

Jacobs, Bart and Marijke J. van der Wal 2015 The discovery, nature, and implications of a Papiamentu text fragment from 1783 Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:1, pp. 44–62 | Article

In this paper, we discuss the recent discovery of four letters written in 1783, one of which is written fully in Papiamentu, the other three comprising Papiamentu fragments. The data in these constitute one of the earliest written attestations of Papiamentu. We first provide a brief overview of the… read more

Rutten, Gijsbert and Marijke J. van der Wal 2013 Epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 45–66 | Article

The paper discusses epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reviewing research into the history of reading and writing skills in Early Modern Europe, we argue that writing experience varied in the language community across… read more

Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten 2013 Ego-documents in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article

Rutten, Gijsbert and Marijke J. van der Wal 2012 Functions of epistolary formulae in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:2, pp. 173–201 | Article

Wray (2002) distinguishes three main functions of formulaic language relating to processing, interaction and discourse marking. In this paper, we show that Wray’s analysis of the functions of formulaic language also applies to historical letter-writing in a corpus of seventeenth- and… read more

Wal, Marijke J. van der, Gijsbert Rutten and Tanja Simons 2012 Letters as loot: Confiscated Letters filling major gaps in the History of Dutch Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 139–162 | Article

In this contribution, we will introduce the recently rediscovered collection of Dutch documents from the second half of the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, comprising over 38,000 letters, both commercial and private ones. The socio-historical linguistic value of these private… read more

Rutten, Gijsbert and Marijke J. van der Wal 2011 Local dialects, supralocal writing systems: The degree of orality of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth century Written Language & Literacy 14:2, pp. 251–274 | Article

In historical sociolinguistics, it is often assumed that ego-documents such as private letters represent the spoken language of the past as closely as possible. In this paper, we will try to determine the degree of orality of seventeenth-century Dutch private letters: the degree to which the… read more

Wal, Marijke J. van der 1999 Interchange or influence: Grotius' early linguistic ideas History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 143 ff. | Chapter

Wal, Marijke J. van der 1995 Logic, Linguistics, and Simon Stevin in the Context of the 16th and 17th Centuries History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 147 ff. | Article

Wal, Marijke J. van der 1992 Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition: The Case of the Passive Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 191 ff. | Article