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Gijsbert Rutten

Professor By Special Appointment Historical sociolinguistics of Dutch

Name
Prof.dr. G.J. Rutten
Telephone
+31 71 527 2112
E-mail
g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6105-8949

Gijsbert Rutten is Professor by special appointment of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch at the Centre for Linguistics (Stichting Merweborgh). His research focusses on language variation and change with a focus on topics such as language contact, multilingualism, standardisation and language ideologies.

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My research focusses on language variation and change with a focus on topics such as language contact, multilingualism, standardisation and language ideologies. My work is corpus-based, and through this I have developed an interest in research infrastructures.

Fields of interest

  • History of Dutch
  • Historical linguistics
  • Language variation and change
  • Historical and contemporary sociolinguistics
  • Language contact and multilingualism

Grants and awards

  • Social Science and Humanies Open Cloud for the Netherlands: SSHOC-NL (NWO Large-scale Research Infrastructure, 2024-2028)
  • Pardon my French? Dutch-French Language Contact in the Netherlands, 1500-1900 (NWO Free Competition, 2018-2024).
  • Going Dutch. The Construction of Dutch in Policy, Practice and Discourse, 1750-1850 (NWO VIDI-Grant, 2013-2018)
  • Language Use, Language Norms and Linguistic Identities in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Southern Dutch in the Early Nineteenth Century (Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, FWO-Vlaanderen; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2009)
  • Historische Sociolinguïstiek van het Nederlands (Grant from the Niels Stensen Stichting; Vrije Universiteit Brussel & University of Helsinki, 2008)
  • Historical Linguistics “from below” (NWO Rubicon Grant; Universiteit Leiden, 2007)

Curriculum Vitae

2020-present Professor by special appointment
2019-present Associate professor
2012-2019 Assistant professor
2007-2012 Postdoc in Leiden, Brussels and Helsinki
2006 PhD Humanities (Nijmegen)
2004 MA Philosophy (Nijmegen)
2000 MA Dutch Language and Culture (Nijmegen)

Research projects

PhD students (co-)supervised

Lorenzo Nespoli (Dutch grammar in Japanese words. Reception and representation of European theory of grammar in the manuscripts of Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806), 2023, with Ca’ Foscari Venice)

Brenda Assendelft (Verfransing onder de loep. Nederlands-Frans taalcontact (1500-1900) vanuit historisch-sociolinguïstisch perspectief, 2023)

Iris Van de Voorde (Pluricentriciteit in de taalgeschiedenis. Bouwstenen voor een geïntegreerde geschiedenis van het Nederlands (16de-19de eeuw), 2022, with Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

 

Andreas Krogull (Policy versus practice: Language variation and change in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch, 2018) 

 

Bob Schoemaker (Gewijd der jeugd voor taal en deugd. Het onderwijs in de Nederlandse taal op de lagere school, 1750-1850, 2018) 

Tanja Simons (Ongekend 18e-eeuws Nederlands: Taalvariatie in persoonlijke brieven, 2013) 

Judith Nobels ((Extra)ordinary letters: a view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch, 2013) 

Ongoing PhD projects 

Elise Alberts (Anglophone churches in the Netherlands, with PThU Amsterdam)   

Kefan Bao (Language policy and planning of Amazigh languages in Morocco)

Hester Groot (Eighteenth- to twentieth-century Scottish English) 

Eline Lismont (Norms and usage in Dutch, 1500-1900, with Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

André Looijenga (The re-invention of written Frisian in the 16th and 17th centuries, with UvA and Fryske Akademy)

Hadis Tamleh (Family language planning of Iranian migrants in the Netherlands) 

Aleksandra Uttenweiler (Positioning in online abortion discourse in German-Polish comparison, with Universität Leipzig) 

Journals 

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

Nederlandse Taalkunde / Dutch Linguistics

Professor By Special Appointment Historical sociolinguistics of Dutch

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL Nederlands

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 2.24

Contact

Associate professor

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL Nederlands

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 2.24

Contact

Activities

  • CLARIN National coordinator
  • CLARIAH Leider werkpakket Taalwetenschap en bestuurslid
  • Nederlandse Taalunie Lid Raad voor de Nederlandse Taal en Letteren
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