Replication data for: The Präteritumschwund in Dutch: Assessing the Role of French in Northern and Southern varieties.

This contains the data for the paper: "De Smet, Isabeau & Bridget Drinka. The Präteritumschwund in Dutch: Assessing the Role of French in Northern and Southern varieties. In Andres Enrique Arias, Carlota de Benito Moreno & Florencio Del Barrio De La Rosa (eds.), The spatial diffusion of linguistic changes: new methods and theoretical perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton." It consists of a dataset with all attestations of preterites and perfects from a corpus covering 13th to 18th century Dutch juridical documents. Furthermore, there is also a dataset covering the number of words for each source and the number of French loans for each text. There are also three datasets, summarizing the number of perfects and preterites for each text for each region, in total, by year and by century. Finally, the R-code for the analysis is given as well.