Jill Puttaert
Guest researcher
- Name
- Dr. J. Puttaert
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2125
- j.puttaert@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Jill Puttaert is a researcher at the Centre for Linguistics.
More information about Jill Puttaert
Fields of interest
- (Historical) sociolinguistics
- History of Dutch
- Language variation and change
- Language choice
- Language history from below
Research
I received my PhD in 2019 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) with a thesis entitled ‘Forgotten Voices from Below. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Lower-Class Correspondence in the Low Countries in the Long Nineteenth Century’. In my thesis I investigated the written language use in letters by soldiers from the Napoleonic era and by paupers asking for financial support from their local authorities. More specially, I looked at the tension between influences from local varieties and dialects on the one hand and supralocal writing practices on the other. Currently I am working as a postdoc on the new NWO-funded project ‘Pardon my French? Dutch-French Language Contact in The Netherlands, 1500-1900’ at Leiden University.
Grants and awards
Jeanne Lonnoy Prize 2012-2013 for the best MA thesis in Linguistics. Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Curriculum vitae
2020-present
Postdoctoral researcher on the NWO-funded project 'Pardon my French? Dutch-French Language Contact in The Netherlands, 1500-1900', Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
2013-2019
PhD fellow on the FWO- and VUB-funded project ‘Forgotten Voices from Below. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Lower-Class Correspondence in the Low Countries in the Long Nineteenth Century’ – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2011-2013
MA Dutch Language and Literature (‘Taal en Letterkunde, Nederlands’) – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2007-2011
Teacher training for Dutch and history (BA) (‘Lerarenopleiding secundair onderwijs: Nederlands en geschiedenis’) – Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB)
Guest researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Nederlands
- Krogull A., Puttaert J. & Rutten G.J. (2023), Verfransing in de achttiende-eeuwse Noordelijke Nederlanden?: Empirisch onderzoek naar taalkeuze in egodocumenten en pamfletten, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 139(2/3): 238-258.
- Krogull A., Puttaert J. & Rutten G.J. (2023), Assessing Dutch-French language choice in private family correspondence: from intra-writer variation to the bigger picture. In: Schiegg M. & Huber J. (Eds.), Intra-writer variation in historical sociolinguistics. Historical Sociolinguistics no. 5. Oxford: Peter Lang. 317-339.
- Puttaert J., Krogull A. & Rutten G.J. (2022), Towards a methodological framework for historical language choice: the case of Dutch and French in the Netherlands (1800–1899), Slovo a Slovesnost 83(4): 251-278.
- Puttaert J. (21 September 2020), Als schrijven levensnoodzakelijk is. Eos Wetenschap. [blog entry].
- Puttaert J., Voorde I. van de & Vosters R. (2019), Forgotten Voices from Below. Historical Sociolinguistic Research in Flanders. In: Pickl S. & Elspaß S. (Eds.), Historische Soziolinguistik der Stadtsprachen. Kontakt - Variation - Wandel. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag. 191-212.
- Vosters R. Puttaert J. (2018), Ouder Nederlands in een nieuw jasje. Recente inzichten uit de taalgeschiedenis. Mottart A. & Vanhooren S. (Eds.), 32ste Conferentie Onderwijs Nederlands. HSN-Conferentie Onderwijs Nederlands 16 November 2018 - 17 November 2018. Gent: Skribis. 298-310.
- Puttaert J. (2016), Linguistic hybridity in nineteenth-century lower-class letters: a case study from Bruges. In: Edlund A.-C., Kuismin A. & Ashplant T.G. (Eds.), Reading and writing from below: exploring the margins of modernity. Umeå: Umeå University & Royal Skyttean Society. 215-234.
- Puttaert J. (2015), Review of: Nobels Judith (2013), (Extra)Ordinary Letters. A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch. Utrecht: LOT. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 1(1).
- Puttaert J. (2014), "het is uijt groote nood dat ik myn kind hier brengen...”: Over taalgebruik en taalkeuze in negentiende- eeuwse vondelingenbriefjes, Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis LXVII: 269-287.
- Vosters R. Belsack E. Puttaert J. Vandenbussche W. (2014), Norms and usage in 19th-century Southern Dutch. In: Rutten G.J., Vosters R. & Vandenbussche W. (Eds.), Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900: A historical- sociolinguistic and comparative perspective. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics no. 3. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 73-100.
- Magis E., Puttaert J., Bossche A. van den, Vandenbussche W., Vosters R. & Willemyns R. (2014), Tussen adoptiekoe en zemelteef: iets over de houdbaarheidsdatum van ‘verse woorden’ in Vlaamse en Nederlandse kranten. In: Velde F.V.D., Smessaert H., Eynde F.V. & Verbrugge S. (Eds.), Patroon en argument: Een dubbelfeestbundel bij het emeritaat van William Van Belle en Joop van der Horst. Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven. 733–744.
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