Purism and Fashion: French Influence on Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch

Geeraerts, Dirk; Grondelaers, Stef

doi:10.1075/bjl.13.04gee

Article published In: Variation in (Sub)standard language
Edited by Rob Belemans and Reinhild Vandekerckhove
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 13] 1999
► pp. 53–67

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Purism and Fashion

French Influence on Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch

Dirk Geeraerts | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Stef Grondelaers | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Published online: 1 January 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.13.04gee

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