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Open access Sep 2026

Why Etymology Matters: The Case of Dutch and Afrikaans hullie ∼ hulle

This article revisits the etymology of the Dutch third-person plural pronoun hullie ∼ hulle , a form of particular interest because of its presence in Afrikaans as well as in American diaspora varieties of Dutch. Although hullie is traditionally analyzed as a contraction of hun (the main third-person plural n...

Bart Jacobs · 0 citations
Open access Aug 2026

From formulaic collective address to plural pronoun

This paper examines a little-known composite second-person plural pronoun that has received no systematic attention in the historical-linguistic literature to date: among(st)-you . Drawing on a broad range of textual sources, we first map the geographical distribution of this pronoun across the anglophone world...

Bart Jacobs, S. Goyette, Mikael Parkvall · 0 citations

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