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Lecturer III, Director of Dutch Studies

• About

  Dr. Toebosch is a Germanic linguist that has published on the morphosyntax of Dutch and Plautdietsch (a language of Netherlandic Mennonite immigrants in the Americas) and on language variation in Brussels. She teaches the Dutch language courses and has additional teaching experience in Linguistics, Composition, and ESL.

  Hybrid Gender in Dutch and Plautdietsch: A purely semantic analysis. Paper presented at the German Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Milwaukee. April-May, 2010.

  Selected Publications

  • Plautdietsch gender: between Dutch and German. 2011. In: Putnam, Michael (ed.) German-language islands: Generative and structural approaches. (Studies in Language Companion Series) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Multilingualism in Brussels: 'I'd rather speak English'. 2008. Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development 29, Issue 2: 154-169. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Co-author: Paul O’Donnell.

• Education

  • Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Michigan M.A., English Literature and Linguistics, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen M.A., TESOL College Preparatory Education, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

• Selected Publications:

• Articles

  • (2011) Plautdietsch gender: between Dutch and German, German-language islands: Generative and structural approaches
  • (2008) Multilingualism in Brussels, Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development