Marijke J van der Wal

Biographic Data

ID7391648
NAMEMarijke J van der Wal
GIVEN NAMESMarijke J
FAMILY NAMEvan der Wal
SIGNATUREVAN DER WAL M J
AFFILIATIONSLeiden University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX0

  • The discovery, nature, and implications of a Papiamentu text fragment from 1783

    Bart Jacobs, Van Der Wal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2015

    In this paper, we discuss the recent discovery of four letters written in 1783, one of which is written fully in Papiamentu, the other three comprising Papiamentu fragments. The data in these constitute one of the earliest written attestations of Papiamentu. We first provide a brief overview of the earliest attestations of Papiamentu and then present the Letters as Loot research programme, to which we owe the discovery of the 1783 letters. Follow…

  • Local dialects, supralocal writing systems

    Gijsbert Rutten, Van Der Wal et al.ARTICLEWritten Language & Literacy2011

    In historical sociolinguistics, it is often assumed that ego-documents such as private letters represent the spoken language of the past as closely as possible. In this paper, we will try to determine the degree of orality of seventeenth-century Dutch private letters: the degree to which the spoken local dialect is represented in these texts, and at the same time, the extent to which scribes possibly converged towards supralocal writing systems. …