Meaning of accusativism | Babel Free

Definitions

The use of originally accusative forms of pronouns, adjectives, articles, etc., in the nominative.

Dutch, uncountable

Examples

“Table 1 shows the results of our corpus study. We can see that, in the cases of the diphthongs, the long vowels, and accusativism, the variants perceived as Northern are dominant across the board, even as early as 1823, which in many localities was the first time in decades that these sorts of document were being produced in Dutch.”

“Examples of accusativism are very common in present-day dialects in Belgium, in dialects spoken in the Southern parts of the Netherlands, as well as in Southern supraregional or regiolectal speech (Goossens 2008: 137–47).”

“The use of the adnominal accusativism, finally, also displays linguistic hybridity, since both forms like de (standard variant since 1844) and den (older form and regional) are present in the letters of our corpus.”

CEFR level