Michiel de Vaan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michiel de Vaan is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0108-8416 | E‑ISSN 2212‑9715
Titles
The Dawn of Dutch: Language contact in the Western Low Countries before 1200
Michiel de Vaan
The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even… read more
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An introduction. Second edition
Robert S.P. Beekes
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a… read more[Not in series, 172] 2011. xxiv, 415 pp.
2025 Anaphoric polar answers in Gallo‑Romance and West Germanic Old Germanic Languages and Latin/Early Romance in Contact, Falluomini, Carla (ed.), pp. 97–120 | Article
In several medieval and modern varieties of Gallo-Romance and West Germanic, answers to polar questions may consist of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ followed by a personal or demonstrative pronoun with anaphoric reference. This type of answers is typologically rare, which begs the question of its origin and its… read more
2024 Een mooi paar mouwen: The etymology of Dutch mooi ‘beautiful’ and mouw ‘sleeve’ Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 69–78 | Chapter
This paper investigates the etymology of Dutch mooi ‘beautiful’. It argues that Dutch mooi and Dutch mouw ‘sleeve’, which are not directly related within Germanic, may be derived from the same Proto-Indo-European root *muH- ‘to move’.
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2022 A contact-induced strategy of femininisation: Middle Dutch and Middle High German nouns in ‑ erse NOWELE 75:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
Middle Dutch and Middle High German possess a femininizing suffix ‑erse, of which reflexes survive in some modern dialects. Its Old Germanic preform arose from the grafting of Latin ‑issa onto the masculine suffix *‑ārja‑ in Dutch and German dialects closest to the Gallo-Romance area in the… read more
2020 Gallo-Romance lenition in Germanic loanwords: The case of ‘market’ NOWELE 73:2, pp. 221–235 | Article
One of the earliest changes affecting Western Romance before the end of the Roman Empire was the lenition of intervocalic *p, *t, *k to *b, *d, *g. We find its effects in a number of Romance loanwords in West Germanic. The word for ‘market’ has not played a role in this discussion because it is… read more
2014 The emergence of Dutch: Consonant changes until 1200 Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, III, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Patrick V. Stiles (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article
In discussions on the history of Dutch phonology, vowels have played a more prominent role than consonants. In some recent and forthcoming publications (de Vaan 2012, forthcoming a, forthcoming b), I show that the consonants also hold important clues for language history in the Low Countries. The… read more
2012 The Metathesis of Suffixal -sl- to -ls- in West Germanic NOWELE Volume 64/65 (April 2012), pp. 91–103 | Article
2012 Dutch koon and Proto-Germanic "jaw, cheek" NOWELE Volume 64/65 (April 2012), pp. 105–115 | Article
2002 The Etymology of English to brag and Old Icelandic bragr NOWELE Volume 41 (October 2002), pp. 45–58 | Article
2000 The Low Franconian Toponym niel "on a Downward Slope" NOWELE Volume 36 (January 2000), pp. 69–75 | Article