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  1. How to Ask (Im)politely

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, June 2026, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten, Petra Sijpesteijn

  2. Pardon my French?

    Article • March 2026, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  3. Forms of address as politic behaviour in seventeenth-century Dutch private and business letters

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, February 2026, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten, Professor Marijke J. van der Wal

  4. How to ask (im)politely

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, February 2026, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten, Dr Marina Terkourafi, Petra Sijpesteijn

  5. One nation, one spelling, one school: writing education and the nationalisation of orthography in the Netherlands (1750–1850)

    Article • Paedagogica Historica, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  6. Language Planning as Nation Building

    Article • January 2019, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  7. SPIN’s flagship project is the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (ERNiE)

    Article • March 2018, Amsterdam University Press

    Dr Kozma Ahačič, philippus breuker, Professor Lieven D'hulst, Dr ANDER DELGADO, Marijan Dovic, Prof. Narve Fulsås, Dr Terry Gunnell, Gauti Kristmannsson, Christian Noack, Professor Rik Vosters, NATALIE KONONENKO, Dr Lone Martinsen, Dr Gijsbert Rutten, Anna Kyriazi, Marjet Derks, Dr Rogerio Miguel Puga, Philip Dine, Sérgio Gomes, Justyna Pyz, Sándor Hites, Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson, Eugenia Drakopoulou, Haraldur Bernharðsson, Rui Marques, Adolf Fridriksson, Ramon Maiz, Itziar Larrinaga, Karl Aspelund, Professor Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, Pēteris Vanags, CHARALAMPOS PASSALIS, Anete Karlsone, Zdravko Blazekovic, Adrian Shubert, Olha Voznyuk, Dr Pavel Tereshkovich, Nikolay Aretov, Nikolay Aretov, ALEXANDRA SFOINI, Tom Dunne, Krisztina Lajosi, Christopher Campo-Bowen, Marita Mathijsen, Éva Guillorel, Rasmus Glenthøj, Davor Beganovic, Milou van Hout, Maitane Ostolaza, Ivana Perica, Lefkios Zafiriou, Hana Zimmerhaklová, Kim Simonsen, Tim van Gerven, Matija Ogrin, Jordi Ginebra, Nadia Danova, Marios Hatzopoulos, Francesc Cortès, Xose Carlos Lopez Bernardez, Nelly Blanchard, Tomaž Pavlin, Troels Peter Roland, Toms Ķencis, Helen Fessas-Emmanouil, Viggo Bank Jensen, Xosé López-García, Avra Xepapadakou, Dalibor Dobias, Montserrat Comas, Popi POLEMI, Professor Murray Pittock, Katinka Netzer, Marija Klobcar, Nicoline Van der Sijs, Angela Jianu, MARIJA STANONIK, Mirjana Stefanović, Pertti Anttonen, Peter Šoltés, Margalida Tomàs, dr. Rutger Helmers, Elo Vilks, Máximo García, Damien François SAGRILLO, Thomas von der Dunk, Eric Storm, Lenka Řezníková, Javier Lopez Anton, Anne Jorunn Kydland, Elixabete Etxebeste, Montserrat Amores, tom shippey, Mrs Gunilla Hermansson, Monika Kropej Telban, carmen popescu, PhD. María José González Dávila, Professor Marko Juvan, Nilay Ozlu, Ludo Stynen, Joan Soler Mata, Dr Padraic Frehan, Oddmund Hoel, Nevena Dakovic, Alenka Koron, Ciaran McDonough, Carme Oriol Carazo, Jani Marjanen, Professor Andrii Danylenko, PASCHALIS KITROMILIDES, Yaniv Hagbi

  8. Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830)

    Article • March 2018, Amsterdam University Press

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten, Dr. Ton van Kalmthout

  9. ‘Omg zo fashionably english’

    Article • Taal en tongval, September 2017, Amsterdam University Press

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  10. Standardization and the myth of neutrality in language history

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Language, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  11. Three Southern shibboleths

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, August 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten, Professor Rik Vosters

  12. Historical sociolinguistics: the field and its future

    Article • Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten, Professor Rik Vosters, Catharina Peersman

  13. Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900

    Article • December 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Rik Vosters, Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  14. Letters as Loot

    Article • November 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Marijke J. van der Wal, Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  15. Touching the Past

    Article • July 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Marijke J. van der Wal, Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  16. Anthonia Feitsma, Tussen Hemsterhuis en Grimm: Joast Hiddes Halbertsma als taalkundige Bezorgd door Els van der Geest, Frits van der Kuip & Jan Noordegraaf

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, March 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  17. From adverb to conjunction and back

    Article • Diachronica, October 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  18. Functions of epistolary formulae in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, July 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Marijke J. van der Wal, Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  19. ‘Lowthian’ Linguistics across the North Sea

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, March 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  20. Local dialects, supralocal writing systems

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, September 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Marijke J. van der Wal, Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  21. Lambert ten Kate and Justus-Georg Schottelius

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, December 2004, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten

  22. Lambert ten Kate and Justus-Georg Schottelius: Theoretical similarities between Dutch and German early modern linguistics

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, January 2004, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten