1. Areas 2. Language 3. "Pertaining 4. Inhabitants to the area" and variants a. The Dutch language area (de Nederlanden); a. (Nederlands); a. (Nederlands); a. (Nederlander(s)!Vlaming(en": the Netherlands Dutch Netherlandish Netherlander(s) b. The country whose capital is Amsterdam b. (Noordnederlands); b. "Noord)nederlands); b. (Nederlander(s"; (Nederland); Northern Dutch Northern; Northern Netherlander(s); the Northern Netherlands; Holland Dutch Dutch(man) c. The Dutch speaking part of Belgium c. (Zuidnederlands); c. (Vlaams); c. (Vlaming(en"; (V laanderen); Southern Dutch Southern Netherlander(s); Southern; the Southern Netherlands; Flanders Flemish Fleming(s) d. The western provinces of Holland d. (Hollands); d. (Hollands); d. (Hollander(s": (Holland = Noord-Holland and Hollands Hollander(s) Hollands Zuid-Holland); the provinces of Holland e. The western provinces of Flanders e. (Vlaams); e. (Vlaams); e. (Vlaming(en": (Vlaanderen ('de Vlaanders') = West- Vlaams Vlaams Vlaming(en) Vlaanderen and Oost-Vlaanderen); the provinces of Flanders The Dutch terms are italicized. LINGUISTICS APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, AND THE DUTCH GRAMMAR OF WILLEM BEYER, 1661, 1681 JOHN GLEDHILL In the flourishing culture of the Northern Netherlands in the early seventeenth century, a proportionate amount of attention was paid to the state of the language. Between 1623 and 1625 several of the leading literary figures, including Hooft and Vondel, had joined in a series of meetings to discuss many aspects of linguistic usage in literature. In this atmosphere it is to be expected that several grammars of the language would appear, and this is indeed the case.

The language of some eighteen million people living at the junction of the two great cultures of western Europe, Romance and Germanic, is now taught by some 262 teachers at I43 universities outside the Netherlands, ineluding Finland, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Czecho slovakia, Portugal, Japan, Malaysia and South Korea. These teachers obviously need to keep in regular and elose touch with the two countries whose culturallife forms the subject of their courses. Yet the first international congress of Dutch teachers abroad did not take place until the early sixties, since when the Colloquium Neerlandicum has become a triennial event, meeting alternately in the Netherlands and Belgium, in The Hague (I96I and I967), Brussels (I964) Ghent (I970) with the fifth Colloquium planned for Leiden in I973. Financial support from the Dutch and Belgian governments enables the majority of European colleagues, and a number of those from other continents, to attend a conference lasting for four or five days and ineluding discussions of the problems involved in teaching Dutch abroad and papers on various aspects of current Dutch studies of interest to those who are working in a certain degree of isolation abroad. At the first Colloquium a Working Committee of Professors and Lecturers in Dutch studies at Universities abroad was set up.

The Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre was established in the University of Cambridge in 1964. The work of the Centre was concentrated on the production of word-indexed, concordances and lexico-graphical materials in several languages for scholars with literary and philological interests. The present volume contains a complete word-index, a ranking list of frequencies, a reverse index and a rhyming index to both Bespiegelingen van Godt and Godtsdienst and Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel (1587 1679), the Dutch poet and dramatist. Bespiegelingen, a long verse work (66531 words), contains a rationale of the doctrine underlying many of Vondel's best-known dramatic works. Because of this, and due to its length and the monumental development of its argument it has been comparatively little studied, Bespiegelingen presented ideal material for analysis by computer. Lucifer, generally considered to be Vondel's masterpiece, was an obvious choice to head the list of original plays.