Marijke van der Wal
Professor Emeritus of History of Dutch
- Name
- Prof.dr. M.J. van der Wal
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- m.j.van.der.wal@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1890-908X
Marijke van der Wal is Professor Emeritus of History of Dutch at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
Research
Research interests:
- history of Dutch
- language change
- language history from below
- standardisation process
- uniformity versus diversity
- ego-documents
- historiography of linguistics
2008-2013
Research programme Letters as Loot. Towards a Non-Standard View on the History of Dutch, funded by NWO (Free Competition Grant).
Monografie:
2014 - 2018
Supervisor in researchprogramme Going Dutch. The Construction of Dutch in Policy, Practice and Discourse, 1750-1850 (NWO VIDI-Grant Gijsbert Rutten).
2018 – present
Supervisor in researchprogramme Pardon my French? Dutch-French Language Contact in The Netherlands, 1500-1900 (Free Competition Grant Gijsbert Rutten)
Brieven als Buit-2/ Letters as Loot-2, an additional collection of letters, compiled by Marijke van der Wal, 1st release 26 February 2021. www.brievenalsbuit2.ivdnt.org
Publications
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Marijke van der Wal (2019), Koopmanszoon Michiel Heusch op Italiereis. Brieven van het thuisfront (1664-1665). Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren (book)
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M.J. van der Wal & G.J. Rutten (2016), At the crossroads. Orality and literacy in Early and Late Modern Dutch private letters. In: Edlund Ann-Catrine , Ashplant T.G., Kuismin Anna (Eds.) Reading and Writing from Below: Exploring the Margins of Modernity.. Umea: Umea University. 197-214.
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M.J. van der Wal & B. Jacobs (2015), The discovery, nature and implications of a Papiamentu text fragment from 1783, Journal of Pidgin and Creole languages 30(1): 44-62.
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Marijke van der Wal (in samenwerking met Cor van Bree), Geschiedenis van het Nederlands, Utrecht: Spectrum, 2014, 7e druk.
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M.J. van der Wal & G.J. Rutten, The practice of letter writing: Skills, models, and Early Modern Dutch manuals, Language and History 56 (2013): 18-32.
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Marijke van der Wal, Onvoltooid verleden tijd. Witte vlekken in de taalgeschiedenis (oratie 17 november 2006), Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen, 2006. Websites: Open Access Leiden University.
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M.J. van der Wal, De moedertaal centraal. Standaardisatie-aspecten in de Nederlanden omstreeks 1650, Den Haag: SDU, 1995.
- Marijke J. van der Wal, Aan mijn dierbare Cecilia, 16de-eeuws lief en leed in brieven. Websites: Leiden University.
Other publications can be found under 'Publications' (top of page).
Interviews & TV
- Forum der Letteren
- Metaaljaargang 2, nr. 3
- Brieven als Buit-corpus online gegaan
- Brieven boven Water, TV broadcast 1 May 2011
- Brieven boven Water, TV broadcast, 8 May 2011
Curriculum Vitae
2009 – 2019 Chair History of Dutch (Merweborgh foundation)
2006 – 2009 KNAW-Muller chair History of Dutch
Main editorial activities
2012 - present Editor of the bookseries Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (in collaboration with Terttu Nevalainen, Helsinki)
1995 – 2011 Co-editor of the linguistic journal Nederlandse Taalkunde
Professor Emeritus of History of Dutch
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Nederlands