Linguistic judgment experiments typically elicit judgments in terms of the acceptability or
surface probability of a sentence. There is evidence that the dimension of the scale on which …

This paper is the first to perform a systematic quantitative analysis of the arguments used to
motivate selections in grammatical entries from normative works on Standard Dutch written …

In 2005, Arnold Zwicky posited two misapprehensions about language: the Recency Illusion,
or the false idea that certain language variation is new, and the Frequency Illusion, the …

The auxiliary doen 'do'in standard Dutch is usually described as 'dummy'because it
supposedly adds nothing substantial to the meaning of the sentence. We argue, however …

The suppression of optional variability is a cornerstone of English prescriptivism. For Dutch,
however, it is unknown whether this concept is equally important. The goal of this paper is to …

On 22 May 2013, programmer Steve Wilhite was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 17th Annual Webby Awards in New York. Wilhite received this award chiefly in …

In 1847, one of the first professors of Dutch, Matthijs Siegenbeek (1774–1854), published a
purist word list entitled Lijst van woorden en uitdrukkingen met het Nederlandsch taaleigen …

In this chapter, Dutch prescriptivism is approached from a historical-sociolinguistic
perspective. We first situate prescriptivism in the context in which it arose and explain how …

In 1985, James and Lesley Milroy published their seminal book Authority in Language. In
this work, they critically approach a large number of different aspects of the English standard …

Aus dem altniederländischen Adjektiv MIDI, das nur als toponymisches Element in ua
Medele, Melleke und Middag überliefert worden ist, entstand das mittelniederländische …