Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects: Volume II (Sand)

Book info: Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects: Volume II (Sand) (Hardcover, 176 pages) – Amsterdam University Press, 2009. Language: English.

The Syntactic Atlas of the Dutch Dialects(SAND) provides a detailed overview of the surprisingly rich syntactic variation found in the 267 dialects of Dutch recorded at the beginning of the twenty-first century. More than 200 full-color maps illustrate the geographic distribution of over 100 syntactic variables, many of which are absent from the Dutch standard language. A state-of-the-art linguistic description accompanies each map, taking into account both modern syntactic research and historical developments. Volume II concentrates on the morphosyntactic variation in two and three-verb clusters, verb cluster interruption, the position of particles and “to” in verb clauses, auxiliary selection, do-insertion, negation, and qualification.

Sjef Barbiers, Hans Bennis, Eefje Boef, and Margreet van der Ham are researchers at the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands' Academy of Arts and Sciences. Johan van der Auwera is a researcher at Antwerp University. Gunther de Vogelaer is a researcher at the 

University of Ghent.