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In:Pardon my French?: Dutch–French language contact in the Netherlands (1500–1900)
Gijsbert Rutten, Andreas Krogull, Brenda Assendelft and Jill Puttaert
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 15] 2026
► pp. 115–134

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Chapter 6
Language choice in business correspondence

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Published online: 9 March 2026

https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.15.c6

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6.1Introduction
6.2Data and methodology
6.3Selected families
6.4Results
- 6.4.1Language choice across families
- 6.4.2Language choice within families
  - De la Court family
  - Calkoen family
  - Van de Mortel family
  - De Beaufort family
6.5Discussion
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