Dutch Studies An annual review of the language, literature and life
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DUTCH STUDIES An annual review of the language, literature and life of the Low Countries
EDITORS
P. Brachin, Sorbonne; J. Goossens, Munster, Louvain; P. K. King, Cambridge; J. de Rooij, Amsterdam (secretary).
ADVISORY BOARD
Walter Thys, Lille, Ghent (chairman); F. van Coetsem, Cornell; E. Erametsa, Jyvaskyla; W. Gobbers, Antwerp; R. P. Meijer, London; N. Morciniec, Wroclaw; N. de Paepe, Louvain; P. Ramat, Pavia; G. J. Resink, Indonesia; M. Rutten, Liege; H. Schultink, Utrecht; William Z. Shetter, Indiana; Jc. Smit, Melbourne; W. A. P. Smit, Utrecht; M. de Villiers, Stellenbosch; J. Weisgerber, Brussels; Charles Wilson, Cambridge; C. A. Zaalberg, Leiden.
Dutch studies is published under the auspices of the International Association for Dutch Studies (IVN), c/o NUFFIC, Molenstraat 27, the Hague, the Netherlands. The Belgian address is c/o Seminarie voor Vergelijkend Literatuuronderzoek, Faculteit van de Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, RUG, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
DUTCH STUDIES An annual review ofthe language, literature and life of the Low Countries
VOLUME 2
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MARTINUS NIJHOFF / THE HAGUE / 1976
© 1976 by M artinus Nijhoff, The Hague. the Netherlands A II rights reserved. including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form ISBN-13: 978-90-247-1770-5
001: 10.1007/978-94-011-6798-7
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-011-6798-7
TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Statement
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LINGUISTICS
Applied Linguistics in the Seventeenth Century, and the Dutch Grammar of Willem Beyer, 1661, 1681 , John Gledhill
1
The Dutch Dictionary, Nienke Bakker
18
Spelling and Spelling Reform in the Netherlands, B. C. Damsteegt
28
LITERATURE
James Joyce's Impact on Simon Vestdijk's Early Fiction, Joris Duytschaever
48
HISTORY
The Historical Force of the Flemish Movement in BelgiumPast Aims, Present Achievements and Future Cultural Aspirations, J. Fleerackers
75
REVIEWS
The Series Naarde letter, Nos. 1-5 by J. J. Th. M. Tersteeg
87
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliographical Aids in Dutch Language Studies, C. van Bree
110
Deutschsprachige Publikationen zur niederHindischen Sprachwissenschaft, 1962-1971, A. J. Welschen 143 Publications on Dutch Language and Literature in Languages other than Dutch, 1972-1973 (with additions to 1971), W. Gobbers 173 The Authors
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EDITORIAL STATEMENT
A particularly nettlish problem in talking or writing about the "language, literature and life of the Low Countries" is raised by the terminology. On the first page of the first volume we stated that "Dutch is the name of the language spoken throughout the Netherlands and the northern half of Belgium". We might have written "Netherlandic is the name of the language spoken throughout Holland and Flanders", and there are indeed a number of tenable arguments in favour of this formulation. Should we then leave it to individual authors and translators to decide which terms they use, and assume that their exact meaning will emerge from the context? The editors would say no to both these questions. Dutch studies is, after all,
