The Dawn of Dutch

The Dawn of Dutch
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
List of maps
List of tables
Chapter 1. Aim and scope
Chapter 2. Definitions of languages and stages
Chapter 3. Sources
	3.1 The Old Dutch corpus
	3.2 The Middle Dutch corpus
	3.3 The Modern Dutch corpus
	3.4 Dialects of Modern Dutch
	3.5 Onomastics
	3.6 Low German
	3.7 High German
	3.8 Frisian
	3.9 Old French
Chapter 4. The spelling of Dutch
Chapter 5. History of research on the ‘Frisian question’ in Belgium and the Netherlands
	Winkler
	Boekenoogen and Te Winkel
	Van Wijk and van Haeringen
	Mansion, Kloeke and Heeroma
	Back to Frisian: Gysseling, Blok, Miedema
	Taeldeman on Flanders
	van Bree and Bremmer
	Goossens and Buccini
	van Loon: No substrate
	Schrijver: Latin substrate
	Dutch and Romance
Chapter 6. The western Low Countries in the Early and High Middle Ages
	6.1 Physical geography in the Early Middle Ages
	6.2 Settlement in the Early Middle Ages
	6.3 The high medieval reclamations
	6.4 Economy and government
		Agriculture and trade
		Freedom and slavery
		Developments after 1200
	6.5 Frisia
	6.6 Holland
	6.7 Flanders
Chapter 7. The study of language contact
	7.1 Theory and terminology
	7.2 The reconstruction of language contact
	7.3 Substrate layers
Chapter 8. Working hypothesis and approach
	8.1 Frisian and Franconian until 1200
	8.2 Contrastive historical phonology of Frisian and Franconian
		8.2.1 Restriction to phonetics and phonology
		8.2.2 Contrastive historical phonology
		8.2.3 From Proto-Germanic to West Germanic
		8.2.4 From West Germanic to Old West Frisian and Early Middle Dutch
Chapter 9. Palatalization of velars in Old and Middle Dutch
	9.1 The cluster T+K
		9.1.1 Personal names in Gard(is), Roetjar
		9.1.2 The prepositions tegen ‘against’ and jegens ‘towards’
		9.1.3 Yerseke
		9.1.4 The diminutive suffix -eken > -(e)tje
		9.1.5 Kortgene
		9.1.6 edik ‘vinegar’
	9.2 Palatalization of word-internal *g to (*)j
		9.2.1 The evidence
		9.2.2 Summary and discussion
	9.3 The prefix ge-/(j)e- < *ga-
	9.4 Initial j- > g-
		9.4.1 The evidence
		9.4.2 Summary
	9.5 Recent Frisian loans in North Holland and Groningen and other irrelevant evidence
		9.5.1 Not restricted to coastal Dutch
		9.5.2 s for k in North Holland
		9.5.3 s and j for g in North Holland
		9.5.4 Flanders
	9.6 Summary and conclusions
Chapter 10. Other issues involving consonants
	10.1 Retention of ft
	10.2 Final -g > -f in Flemish
	10.3 h- > zero, g > h, and hypercorrections
	10.4 Metathesis of Vr to rV before xt
	10.5 xs > ss
	10.6 Medial þþ > ss and tt
	10.7 Summary
Chapter 11. Fronting of stressed a to e
	11.1 Phonetics of short /a/ and /e/ in modern dialects
	11.2 a > e before sk and sp
	11.3 Dutch e for a by analogy and/or i-mutation
	11.4 Flemish Feger- and Gent
	11.5 Northwestern Dutch sel ‘shall’
	11.6 Summary and interpretation
Chapter 12. Rounding of a to o
	12.1 Before a retained nasal
	12.2 Before a nasal which was lost
		12.2.1 WGm. *mf
		12.2.2 WGm. *ns
		12.2.3 WGm. *nþ
		12.2.4 WGm. *nx
		12.2.5 Interpretation
	12.3 Before l
	12.4 Unstressed a > o near labials
	12.5 Summary
Chapter 13. Loss of nasals before voiceless fricatives
	13.1 WGm. *mf, *nf
	13.2 WGm. *ns
	13.3 WGm. *nþ
	13.4 Interpretation
Chapter 14. Breaking of e to jo, ju
Chapter 15. WGm. *u and *o in coastal Dutch
	15.1 Research history and preliminaries
		15.1.1 Research history
		15.1.2 On the presence vs. absence of an i-mutation factor
		15.1.3 On the allophones *u and *o
		15.1.4 On closed and open syllables
		15.1.5 On the graphemics of rounded vowels
	15.2 Unrounding of *ü
		15.2.1 Unrounding in closed syllable
		15.2.2 Flemish unrounding before rC
		15.2.3 Unrounding in open syllable
		15.2.4 Alleged evidence to be dismissed
		15.2.5 Summary and interpretation
	15.3 Fronting of *u and *o in coastal Dutch
		15.3.1 Short vowel
		15.3.2 Lengthened vowel
		15.3.3 Etymological variation between /u/ and /ü/
		15.3.4 Summaries
		15.3.5 Interpretation
Chapter 16. WGm. *ū
	16.1 Period and conditioning of the fronting
	16.2 Oe-relics in coastal Dutch toponyms
	16.3 Oe-relics in the Standard Dutch vocabulary
	16.4 Conclusion
Chapter 17. WGm. *ea, *eo and *ō
	17.1 Coastal Dutch ee for StDu. ie
	17.2 Coastal Dutch oo for StDu. oe
		17.2.1 The Middle Dutch situation
		17.2.2 Mid vowel relic forms in western dialects
		17.2.3 Shortening to o
	17.3 Coastal Dutch eu from *ō without mutation factor
		Summary
	17.4 North Hollandish ja, aa from *eu
Chapter 18. WGm. *ǣ
	Interpretation
Chapter 19. Unrounding of *ǖ, *ō̈, *äü, and *iu
	19.1 Unrounding of *ǖ
		Evidence to be dismissed
	19.2 Unrounding of *o
		Evidence to be dismissed
	19.3 Unrounding of *äü
		Uncertain evidence
		Evidence to be dismissed
	19.4 Unrounding of *iu
		Discussion
	19.5 The rise and unrounding of so-called “ui2”
	19.6 Summary and conclusions
		Summaries
		General conclusion
Chapter 20. WGm. *ai
	20.1 Flemish ee and ei
	20.2 Hollandish ie and ei
	20.3 Dutch aa
		Summary
	20.4 Dutch oo
		Summary
Chapter 21. WGm. *au
	21.1 Dutch aa
		Summary
	21.2 Dutch oe and eu
Chapter 22. Summary and conclusions
	22.1 Summary of the results
		a. Consonant phenomena
		b.1 Short vowels (except *u)
		b.2 Short *u
		c. Long vowels
	22.2 Loanwords from Frisian
	22.3 Language shift or language continuity?
	22.4 General conclusion
Bibliography
Index