Reinier Salverda

List of John Benjamins publications in which Reinier Salverda is involved.

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Salverda, Reinier 2025 Chapter 11. Rethinking language contact in the Malay archipelago Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher and Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.), pp. 342–391 | Chapter

This contribution on language contact in the Malay archipelago starts from the discovery around 1520 of Malay by Pigafetta and its ensuing contact with Portuguese. A century later, Dutch was added to the mix by De Houtman in his Malay-Dutch guide of 1603. Exploring such contacts I’ll take my cue… read more