Chapter 39 Ethnolects of Dutch

• Main Author: Muysken, Pieter (auth)
• Other Authors: Hinskens, Frans (Editor), Taeldeman, Johan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English; Dutch
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Subjects: Language; Dialect, slang & jargon; Dutch; language variation; language/dialect contact; language change
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In this chapter I discuss the different ethnolects that exist in the Netherlandic-speaking language context. It is convenient, but not entirely accurate, to define these simply as ethnic varieties of Dutch, on a par with dialects and sociolects. This is also suggested in the title of this chapter, b...