Gerhard Van Huyssteen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerhard Van Huyssteen is involved.
Article
2025 Chapter 10. Dutch taboo words adrift Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher and Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.), pp. 314–341 | Chapter
In this chapter, it is investigated to what extent Dutch influenced other languages’ maledicticons, i.e., taboo-language usage such as swearwords, insults, euphemisms and dysphemisms, impolite language, etc. (collectively called maledicta). The focus here is how borrowing of especially lexical… read more