Stefan Grondelaer
Biographic Data
| ID | 228419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Grondelaer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Grondelaer |
| SIGNATURE | GRONDELAER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9535-6637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When intuitions diverge from usage: Is Serbo-Croatian syntax socially indexical
This paper draws on acceptability judgments and corpus data to investigate the alternation between infinitival (INF) and finite da -present complements (DPC) in Serbo-Croatian. We first provide experimental evidence that predictors suggested in the literature on the basis of limited empirical evidence do indeed shape complement choice: DPCs are more frequent with larger complements and root modality, while INFs are preferred with smaller compleme…
Between (anti-)grammar and identity: A quantitative and qualitative study of hyperdialectisms in Brabantish
Incomplete mastery of dialect grammar engenders ‘hyperdialectisms’ which may be unconscious errors, but which may also be the result of indexical resourcefulness, viz. the profiling of a regional identity. Fifty younger and older speakers from the Brabantish city of Eindhoven (Netherlands) were first administered an acceptability judgment task containing correct forms and three types of hyperdialectisms featuring gender and number constraints. Fo…
Natiolectal Variation in Dutch Morphosyntax: A Large-Scale, Data-Driven Perspective
In this article, we report a large-scale corpus study aimed at tackling the (controversial) question to what extent the European national varieties of Dutch, that is, Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, exhibit morpho-syntactic differences. Instead of relying on a manual selection of cases of morphosyntactic variation, we first marshal large bilingual parallel corpora and machine translation software to identify semiautomatically, in an extensively d…
Why do we say them when we know it should be they ? Twitter as a resource for investigating nonstandard syntactic variation in The Netherlands
Two Twitter-based corpus studies are reported to account for the increasing preference in The Netherlands for the stigmatized subject use of the object pronoun hun ‘them.’ Twitter data were collected to obtain a sufficient number of hun -tokens, but also to investigate the validity of two hypotheses on the preference for hun , this is, that subject- hun is a contrast profiler which thrives in contexts of evaluation and qualification, and that sub…
Antifunctionality in Shawi split ergativity, a processing analysis
In this article, as a follow-up of Rojas-Berscia and Bourdeau (2017), we study morphological ergativity in Shawi (Kawapanan) using a dedicated experimental design. Shawi displays ergative-marking in an opposite direction from Silverstein's Nominal Hierarchy (NH) (Silverstein 1976). We claim this pattern to be antifunctional, given the lack of internal syntactic cues that explain why ergativity is omitted or completely obligatory in cases where th…
Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features
In this article, we investigate social meaning as a determinant of linguistic diffusion by confronting laboratory and corpus data of Citétaal, a multi-ethnolect that has spread across Flanders. In a speaker evaluation experiment, we found that Citétaal was upgraded on 'streetwise dynamism', even by respondents unfamiliar with its migrant origin. From this, we conclude that it is Citétaal's third-order indexicality, pruned of ethnic associations, …
Standard language dynamics in postcolonial Suriname
Aicha Is More Dutch but Less Dynamic than Ahmed: The Gendered Nature of Race in the Netherlands
n Contains fulltext :\n 287420.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Sprekend Nederland , a multi-purpose collection of Dutch speech
This contribution sketches the aims, participant recruitment and methodology of the Sprekend Nederland project, the amount and types of data, the research possibilities they offer and suggestions for similar future projects
Incorporating the multi-level nature of the constructicon into hypothesis testing
Construction grammar organizes its basic elements of description, its constructions, into networks that range from concrete, lexically-filled constructions to fully schematic ones, with several levels of partially schematic constructions in between. However, only few corpus studies with a constructionist background take this multi-level nature fully into account. In this paper, we argue that understanding language variation can be advanced consid…
The competence of the professional standard language speaker in flux? Support from the speech therapy context
Schaalvergroting in het syntactische alternantieonderzoek: Een nieuwe analyse van het presentatieve er met automatisch gegenereerde predictoren
In this paper, we revisit earlier analyses of the distribution of er ‘there’ in adjunct-initial sentences to demonstrate the merits of computational upscaling in syntactic variation research. Contrary to previous studies, in which major semantic and pragmatic predictors (viz. adjunct type, adjunct concreteness, and verb specificity) had to be coded manually, the present study operationalizes these predictors on the basis of distributional analysi…
Vissen naar variatie: Digitaal op zoek naar onbekende Noord/Zuid-verschillen in de grammatica van het Nederlands
Belgian Dutch (BD) and Netherlandic Dutch (ND) are known to exhibit phonetic and lexical differences, but national variation in the syntax of Dutch has often been claimed to be quasi non-existent. This view is rooted in the fact that both laypersons and researchers are oblivious to national divergences in the grammar of Dutch (unless they are categorical and/or heavily mediatized), but also in the undisputed belief that BD and ND are different su…
Verwacht het onverwachte: Over hoe Nederlanders er anders gebruiken dan Vlamingen
Expect the unexpected. About the different ways in which the Dutch and the Flemish use er In this paper I report experimental data I have ignored for almost ten years because I did not know what to do with them. I still don’t know exactly, but the 25th anniversary of this journal is a key occasion to share them, if only because they fittingly illustrate that the syntax of Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch are diverging. The new data demonstrate that…
Implicitness and experimental methods in language variation research
This special issue brings together research that reflects on the status and role of different types of language attitudes, and the methods required to study them. Many linguists distinguish between explicit and implicit attitudes towards language, but more often than not it remains unclear how these constructs are defined, and what their potential significance is for the study of language variation and change. The contributions to this issue addr…
How “deep” is Dynamism? Revisiting the evaluation of Moroccan-flavored Netherlandic Dutch
In this paper we report a new speaker evaluation experiment to follow up on an earlier study, which found that the Moroccan accent of Netherlandic Standard Dutch was generally downgraded. As in the previous study, both traditional Superiority evaluations and modern Dynamism considerations (pertaining to media cool) were extracted, albeit with greater methodological care: we included a three-level accent strength variable in the stimuli, and measu…
Re-evaluating the Prestige of Regional Accents in Netherlandic Standard Dutch: The Role of Accent Strength and Speaker Gender
This article investigates three neglected determinants of native speakers' attitudes toward regional accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch, namely, accent strength, speaker gender, and the evaluation dimension dynamism. Nineteen participants first rated 126 speech clips representing three regional accents (Randstad, Groningen, Limburg) in terms of the expected regional origin of the speakers and their accent strength. In a subsequent sp…
Correlatives in earlier English: Change and continuity in the expression of interclausal dependencies
A construction very widely used in Old English and Old Germanic more broadly are correlatives introduced by an adverbial or conditional subclause, as in When you've done your homework, ( then ) you can come back (Old English: ‘..., then can you come back’). Correlatives originate from a paratactic clause structure, making use of resumptive adverbs such as then belonging to the Old Germanic series of demonstrative adverbs, whose syntactic niche wa…
How (in)coherent can standard languages be? A perceptual perspective on co-variation
The Standard Language Situation in the Low Countries: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Variations on a Diaglossic Theme
This paper reviews the available evidence in support of a diaglossic account (Auer 2005, 2011) of the 20th century history of Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, whereby the national varieties of Dutch are argued to be developing towards a stratificational configuration without discrete intermediate strata between the base dialects and the standard. However, we show that the processes leading to diaglossia differ significantly in the two varieties. W…
Is Standard Dutch with a regional accent standard or not? Evidence from native speakers' attitudes
This paper reports a speaker evaluation experiment that investigated the competition between three regional accents of Standard Dutch and references to the speaker's profession as determinants of attitude formation. A stratified sample of listener-judges rated speech stimuli that were presented in two guises, a neutral guise and a teacher guise (the latter containing multiple references that revealed the speaker to be a high school teacher of Dut…
Evaluating Regional Accent Variation in Standard Dutch
This article investigates native speakers’ attitudes toward accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch. Adopting the speaker evaluation paradigm, a demographically controlled sample of listener-judges rated spontaneous speech samples that are representative of four regions in the Netherlands, and from which potentially competing linguistic cues (e.g., pitch and intonation) had not been removed. Speech stimuli were rated on a set of scales in…
The Structure of Lexical Variation: Meaning, Naming and Context
Evaluating Regional Accent Variation in Standard Dutch
This article investigates native speakers’ attitudes toward accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch. Adopting the speaker evaluation paradigm, a demographically controlled sample of listener-judges rated spontaneous speech samples that are representative of four regions in the Netherlands, and from which potentially competing linguistic cues (e.g., pitch and intonation) had not been removed. Speech stimuli were rated on a set of scales in…
Incorporating the multi-level nature of the constructicon into hypothesis testing
Construction grammar organizes its basic elements of description, its constructions, into networks that range from concrete, lexically-filled constructions to fully schematic ones, with several levels of partially schematic constructions in between. However, only few corpus studies with a constructionist background take this multi-level nature fully into account. In this paper, we argue that understanding language variation can be advanced consid…
Re-evaluating the Prestige of Regional Accents in Netherlandic Standard Dutch: The Role of Accent Strength and Speaker Gender
This article investigates three neglected determinants of native speakers' attitudes toward regional accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch, namely, accent strength, speaker gender, and the evaluation dimension dynamism. Nineteen participants first rated 126 speech clips representing three regional accents (Randstad, Groningen, Limburg) in terms of the expected regional origin of the speakers and their accent strength. In a subsequent sp…
Is Standard Dutch with a regional accent standard or not? Evidence from native speakers' attitudes
This paper reports a speaker evaluation experiment that investigated the competition between three regional accents of Standard Dutch and references to the speaker's profession as determinants of attitude formation. A stratified sample of listener-judges rated speech stimuli that were presented in two guises, a neutral guise and a teacher guise (the latter containing multiple references that revealed the speaker to be a high school teacher of Dut…
Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features
In this article, we investigate social meaning as a determinant of linguistic diffusion by confronting laboratory and corpus data of Citétaal, a multi-ethnolect that has spread across Flanders. In a speaker evaluation experiment, we found that Citétaal was upgraded on 'streetwise dynamism', even by respondents unfamiliar with its migrant origin. From this, we conclude that it is Citétaal's third-order indexicality, pruned of ethnic associations, …
How (in)coherent can standard languages be? A perceptual perspective on co-variation
The competence of the professional standard language speaker in flux? Support from the speech therapy context
The Structure of Lexical Variation: Meaning, Naming and Context
Is Standard Dutch with a regional accent standard or not? Evidence from native speakers' attitudes
This paper reports a speaker evaluation experiment that investigated the competition between three regional accents of Standard Dutch and references to the speaker's profession as determinants of attitude formation. A stratified sample of listener-judges rated speech stimuli that were presented in two guises, a neutral guise and a teacher guise (the latter containing multiple references that revealed the speaker to be a high school teacher of Dut…
Evaluating Regional Accent Variation in Standard Dutch
This article investigates native speakers’ attitudes toward accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch. Adopting the speaker evaluation paradigm, a demographically controlled sample of listener-judges rated spontaneous speech samples that are representative of four regions in the Netherlands, and from which potentially competing linguistic cues (e.g., pitch and intonation) had not been removed. Speech stimuli were rated on a set of scales in…
The Standard Language Situation in the Low Countries: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Variations on a Diaglossic Theme
This paper reviews the available evidence in support of a diaglossic account (Auer 2005, 2011) of the 20th century history of Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, whereby the national varieties of Dutch are argued to be developing towards a stratificational configuration without discrete intermediate strata between the base dialects and the standard. However, we show that the processes leading to diaglossia differ significantly in the two varieties. W…
How (in)coherent can standard languages be? A perceptual perspective on co-variation
Correlatives in earlier English: Change and continuity in the expression of interclausal dependencies
A construction very widely used in Old English and Old Germanic more broadly are correlatives introduced by an adverbial or conditional subclause, as in When you've done your homework, ( then ) you can come back (Old English: ‘..., then can you come back’). Correlatives originate from a paratactic clause structure, making use of resumptive adverbs such as then belonging to the Old Germanic series of demonstrative adverbs, whose syntactic niche wa…
Implicitness and experimental methods in language variation research
This special issue brings together research that reflects on the status and role of different types of language attitudes, and the methods required to study them. Many linguists distinguish between explicit and implicit attitudes towards language, but more often than not it remains unclear how these constructs are defined, and what their potential significance is for the study of language variation and change. The contributions to this issue addr…
How “deep” is Dynamism? Revisiting the evaluation of Moroccan-flavored Netherlandic Dutch
In this paper we report a new speaker evaluation experiment to follow up on an earlier study, which found that the Moroccan accent of Netherlandic Standard Dutch was generally downgraded. As in the previous study, both traditional Superiority evaluations and modern Dynamism considerations (pertaining to media cool) were extracted, albeit with greater methodological care: we included a three-level accent strength variable in the stimuli, and measu…
Re-evaluating the Prestige of Regional Accents in Netherlandic Standard Dutch: The Role of Accent Strength and Speaker Gender
This article investigates three neglected determinants of native speakers' attitudes toward regional accent variation in Netherlandic Standard Dutch, namely, accent strength, speaker gender, and the evaluation dimension dynamism. Nineteen participants first rated 126 speech clips representing three regional accents (Randstad, Groningen, Limburg) in terms of the expected regional origin of the speakers and their accent strength. In a subsequent sp…
Schaalvergroting in het syntactische alternantieonderzoek: Een nieuwe analyse van het presentatieve er met automatisch gegenereerde predictoren
In this paper, we revisit earlier analyses of the distribution of er ‘there’ in adjunct-initial sentences to demonstrate the merits of computational upscaling in syntactic variation research. Contrary to previous studies, in which major semantic and pragmatic predictors (viz. adjunct type, adjunct concreteness, and verb specificity) had to be coded manually, the present study operationalizes these predictors on the basis of distributional analysi…
Vissen naar variatie: Digitaal op zoek naar onbekende Noord/Zuid-verschillen in de grammatica van het Nederlands
Belgian Dutch (BD) and Netherlandic Dutch (ND) are known to exhibit phonetic and lexical differences, but national variation in the syntax of Dutch has often been claimed to be quasi non-existent. This view is rooted in the fact that both laypersons and researchers are oblivious to national divergences in the grammar of Dutch (unless they are categorical and/or heavily mediatized), but also in the undisputed belief that BD and ND are different su…
Verwacht het onverwachte: Over hoe Nederlanders er anders gebruiken dan Vlamingen
Expect the unexpected. About the different ways in which the Dutch and the Flemish use er In this paper I report experimental data I have ignored for almost ten years because I did not know what to do with them. I still don’t know exactly, but the 25th anniversary of this journal is a key occasion to share them, if only because they fittingly illustrate that the syntax of Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch are diverging. The new data demonstrate that…
Sprekend Nederland , a multi-purpose collection of Dutch speech
This contribution sketches the aims, participant recruitment and methodology of the Sprekend Nederland project, the amount and types of data, the research possibilities they offer and suggestions for similar future projects
Incorporating the multi-level nature of the constructicon into hypothesis testing
Construction grammar organizes its basic elements of description, its constructions, into networks that range from concrete, lexically-filled constructions to fully schematic ones, with several levels of partially schematic constructions in between. However, only few corpus studies with a constructionist background take this multi-level nature fully into account. In this paper, we argue that understanding language variation can be advanced consid…
The competence of the professional standard language speaker in flux? Support from the speech therapy context
Standard language dynamics in postcolonial Suriname
Aicha Is More Dutch but Less Dynamic than Ahmed: The Gendered Nature of Race in the Netherlands
n Contains fulltext :\n 287420.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Natiolectal Variation in Dutch Morphosyntax: A Large-Scale, Data-Driven Perspective
In this article, we report a large-scale corpus study aimed at tackling the (controversial) question to what extent the European national varieties of Dutch, that is, Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch, exhibit morpho-syntactic differences. Instead of relying on a manual selection of cases of morphosyntactic variation, we first marshal large bilingual parallel corpora and machine translation software to identify semiautomatically, in an extensively d…
Why do we say them when we know it should be they ? Twitter as a resource for investigating nonstandard syntactic variation in The Netherlands
Two Twitter-based corpus studies are reported to account for the increasing preference in The Netherlands for the stigmatized subject use of the object pronoun hun ‘them.’ Twitter data were collected to obtain a sufficient number of hun -tokens, but also to investigate the validity of two hypotheses on the preference for hun , this is, that subject- hun is a contrast profiler which thrives in contexts of evaluation and qualification, and that sub…
Antifunctionality in Shawi split ergativity, a processing analysis
In this article, as a follow-up of Rojas-Berscia and Bourdeau (2017), we study morphological ergativity in Shawi (Kawapanan) using a dedicated experimental design. Shawi displays ergative-marking in an opposite direction from Silverstein's Nominal Hierarchy (NH) (Silverstein 1976). We claim this pattern to be antifunctional, given the lack of internal syntactic cues that explain why ergativity is omitted or completely obligatory in cases where th…
Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features
In this article, we investigate social meaning as a determinant of linguistic diffusion by confronting laboratory and corpus data of Citétaal, a multi-ethnolect that has spread across Flanders. In a speaker evaluation experiment, we found that Citétaal was upgraded on 'streetwise dynamism', even by respondents unfamiliar with its migrant origin. From this, we conclude that it is Citétaal's third-order indexicality, pruned of ethnic associations, …
Between (anti-)grammar and identity: A quantitative and qualitative study of hyperdialectisms in Brabantish
Incomplete mastery of dialect grammar engenders ‘hyperdialectisms’ which may be unconscious errors, but which may also be the result of indexical resourcefulness, viz. the profiling of a regional identity. Fifty younger and older speakers from the Brabantish city of Eindhoven (Netherlands) were first administered an acceptability judgment task containing correct forms and three types of hyperdialectisms featuring gender and number constraints. Fo…
When intuitions diverge from usage: Is Serbo-Croatian syntax socially indexical
This paper draws on acceptability judgments and corpus data to investigate the alternation between infinitival (INF) and finite da -present complements (DPC) in Serbo-Croatian. We first provide experimental evidence that predictors suggested in the literature on the basis of limited empirical evidence do indeed shape complement choice: DPCs are more frequent with larger complements and root modality, while INFs are preferred with smaller compleme…
Linguistics (20 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)