Robert Cloutier
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert Cloutier is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 16. Variation and stability in variants of heritage Dutch Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher and Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.), pp. 502–536 | Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of linguistic variation and stability of heritage Dutch in seven parts of the world. In the context of research on first and second language acquisition strategies in Dutch as well as on other heritage languages, we contextualize and interpret observations taken… read more
2013 *haitan in Gothic and Old English Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 17–40 | Article
By collecting data from various corpora, I examine and compare the use of the Gothic haitan and Old English hātan reflexes of *haitan, a transitive verb that develops into a copula-like verb in the other Germanic languages. Between the two languages, this verb can occur in five constructions:… read more
2013 Synchronic variation and loss of case: Formal and informal language in a Dutch corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam texts Diachronica 30:3, pp. 353–381 | Article
A bias towards formal texts obscures our view of language change and gives a misleading impression of actual developments if ‘changes from below’ are in conflict with ‘changes from above,’ resulting from norms that are visible in particular in formal language. A corpus of 17th-century Amsterdam… read more