Expressing Inflection Tonally

In Limburg Dutch, the difference between neuter and feminine agreement on adjectives is expressed by a difference in lexical tone. This paper argues that this distinction is due to a difference in underlying representations and not to a paradigmatic antifaithfulness effect. In particular, it argues for a specific version of REALIZE-MORPHEME, the constraint demanding every underlying morpheme to be present in phonological surface representations. The key argument is that a schwa suffix turns up whenever the tonal change from neuter to feminine is not possible

Una máquina de escansión para poesía y prosa en neerlandés

This paper looks into the possibility that the rhythm present in poetry is the same that characterizes natural languages. This hypothesis, although attractive, faces serious problems such as the tremendous amount of data necessary to reach any valid conclusion and the fact that certain poetic traditions may deviate from the rhythm expected in a certain language. In order to tentatively test whether there is a relationship between the rhythmic properties of a certain language and its poetry we selected Dutch, a stress-timed language, and we took modern Dutch metric poetry as the object of study. Then, we created a tool that finds regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in iambic pentameters and we compared our results to those of de Groot (1936). Finally, we discussed what factors could influence the noticeable findings for the beginning and the end of the studied verses and whether these findings could be the same for Dutch prose texts.En este artículo examinamos la posibilidad de que el ritmo presente en la poesía sea el mismo que caracteriza a las lenguas naturales. Esta hipótesis, aunque atractiva, se enfrenta a importantes problemas, tales como la necesidad de disponer de una ingente cantidad de datos para así obtener conclusiones válidas, o el hecho de que ciertas tradiciones poéticas pueden desviarse del ritmo esperado en una determinada lengua. Con el fin de examinar provisionalmente si existe una relación entre las propiedades rítmicas de una lengua concreta y su poesía, elegimos el neerlandés, una lengua acentualmente acompasada, y como objeto de estudio tomamos su poesía métrica moderna. Seguidamente creamos una herramienta que encuentra patrones regulares de sílabas tónicas y átonas en pentámetros yámbicos y comparamos nuestros resultados con los conseguidos por de Groot (1936). Por último, analizamos qué factores pueden influir sobre los hallazgos percibidos al comienzo y al final de los versos estudiados, y si estos resultados podrían ser los mismos para textos prosísticos del neerlandé

‘Een mooie mengelmoes’

The linguistic relality in the Netherlands during the Golden Age was in fact one of multilingualism: so many languages and dialects were used. Nicoline van der Sijs and Marc van Oostendorp show how the emergence of the Dutch language can only be understood against this multilinguistic background

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