Views from the closet: Wobbe de Vries (1863-1942)

description Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2008. Views from the closet: Wobbe de Vries (1863-1942). In Lo van Driel and
Theo Janssen, eds., Ontheven aan de tijd: linguïstisch-historische studies voor Jan Noordegraaf bij
zijn zestigste verjaardag
. Münster: Nodus Publikationen and Amsterdam: Stichting Neerlandistiek VU.
Pp. 243-254. Stichting Neerlandistiek Vrije Universiteit 57.
type Festschrift article (reviewed).
ID 2008b | 136 | first version March 31, 2008; final version July 4, 2008.
origin Contribution to the Festschrift of Jan Noordegraaf, specialist in the history of linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. This essay grew out of a longstanding interest in the eccentric Groningen syntactician Wobbe de Vries.
keywords Wobbe de Vries; G.G. Kloeke; hollandse expansie; schoolgrammatica
summary Discusses De Vries' views on the linguistics of his time, most notably Kloeke's theory of sociolinguistic expansion and the syntactic analysis in traditional school grammar.
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Publications: Wobbe de Vries.

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