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More on Dutch “hun hebben”

Posted on February 21, 2012 by BtU Admin

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Elsewhere in this blog we reported on the controversial use of hun hebben in Dutch today: it is widely used, possibly even spreading rapidly, but highly stigmatised at the same time. The pronoun hun in standard Dutch is an oblique form (“them”) or … Continue reading →

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Hun hebben: a Dutch usage problem

Posted on September 22, 2011 by BtU Admin

About 18 months ago, a great uproar arose as a result of a discussion on television between Helen de Hoop, who has a chair in theoretical linguistics at the University of Nijmegen, and the then minister of education in the … Continue reading →

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