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Gijsbert Rutten

Professor By Special Appointment Historical sociolinguistics of Dutch

Name
Prof.dr. G.J. Rutten
Telephone
+31 71 527 2112
E-mail
g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6105-8949

Gijsbert Rutten is Professor by special appointment of Historical Sociolinguistics of Dutch at the Centre for Linguistics (Stichting Merweborgh). His research focusses on language variation and change with a focus on topics such as language contact, multilingualism, standardisation and language ideologies.

More information about Gijsbert Rutten

My research focusses on language variation and change with a focus on topics such as language contact, multilingualism, standardisation and language ideologies. My work is corpus-based, and through this I have developed an interest in research infrastructures.

Fields of interest

  • History of Dutch
  • Historical linguistics
  • Language variation and change
  • Historical and contemporary sociolinguistics
  • Language contact and multilingualism

Grants and awards

  • Social Science and Humanies Open Cloud for the Netherlands: SSHOC-NL (NWO Large-scale Research Infrastructure, 2024-2028)
  • Pardon my French? Dutch-French Language Contact in the Netherlands, 1500-1900 (NWO Free Competition, 2018-2024).
  • Going Dutch. The Construction of Dutch in Policy, Practice and Discourse, 1750-1850 (NWO VIDI-Grant, 2013-2018)
  • Language Use, Language Norms and Linguistic Identities in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Southern Dutch in the Early Nineteenth Century (Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, FWO-Vlaanderen; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2009)
  • Historische Sociolinguïstiek van het Nederlands (Grant from the Niels Stensen Stichting; Vrije Universiteit Brussel & University of Helsinki, 2008)
  • Historical Linguistics “from below” (NWO Rubicon Grant; Universiteit Leiden, 2007)

Curriculum Vitae

2020-present Professor by special appointment
2019-present Associate professor
2012-2019 Assistant professor
2007-2012 Postdoc in Leiden, Brussels and Helsinki
2006 PhD Humanities (Nijmegen)
2004 MA Philosophy (Nijmegen)
2000 MA Dutch Language and Culture (Nijmegen)

Research projects

PhD students (co-)supervised

Lorenzo Nespoli (Dutch grammar in Japanese words. Reception and representation of European theory of grammar in the manuscripts of Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806), 2023, with Ca’ Foscari Venice)

Brenda Assendelft (Verfransing onder de loep. Nederlands-Frans taalcontact (1500-1900) vanuit historisch-sociolinguïstisch perspectief, 2023)

Iris Van de Voorde (Pluricentriciteit in de taalgeschiedenis. Bouwstenen voor een geïntegreerde geschiedenis van het Nederlands (16de-19de eeuw), 2022, with Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

 

Andreas Krogull (Policy versus practice: Language variation and change in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch, 2018) 

 

Bob Schoemaker (Gewijd der jeugd voor taal en deugd. Het onderwijs in de Nederlandse taal op de lagere school, 1750-1850, 2018) 

Tanja Simons (Ongekend 18e-eeuws Nederlands: Taalvariatie in persoonlijke brieven, 2013) 

Judith Nobels ((Extra)ordinary letters: a view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch, 2013) 

Ongoing PhD projects 

Elise Alberts (Anglophone churches in the Netherlands, with PThU Amsterdam)   

Hester Groot (Eighteenth- to twentieth-century Scottish English) 

Eline Lismont (Norms and usage in Dutch, 1500-1900, with Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

Hadis Tamleh (Family language planning of Iranian migrants in the Netherlands) 

Aleksandra Uttenweiler (Positioning in online abortion discourse in German-Polish comparison, with Universität Leipzig) 

Journals 

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics

Nederlandse Taalkunde / Dutch Linguistics

Professor By Special Appointment Historical sociolinguistics of Dutch

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL Nederlands

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 2.24

Contact

Associate professor

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
  • LUCL Nederlands

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden
Room number 2.24

Contact

Publications

  • CLARIN National coordinator
  • CLARIAH Leider werkpakket Taalwetenschap en bestuurslid
  • Nederlandse Taalunie Lid Raad voor de Nederlandse Taal en Letteren
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