Afrikaans Linguistics
Afrikaans Linguistics

Author: WAM Carstens

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published: 2024-10-03

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 1991260520

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Offering a contemporary exploration of the multifaceted landscape of Afrikaans linguistics, Afrikaans Linguistics: Contemporary Perspectives marks a seminal contribution to the field. This volume, for the first time, presents accessible insights into diverse linguistics subdisciplines, inviting international scholars to familiarise themselves with Afrikaans language studies. Throughout much of the late 19th and 20th centuries, Afrikaans scholars predominantly communicated in Afrikaans, resulting in a significant gap in the dissemination of knowledge about the language. The chapters in this book, written by prominent South Africans, as well as international scholars working in the field of Afrikaans, serve as a pivotal bridge, by providing essential historical context while also paying attention to the development of Afrikaans linguistics during the 20th century. The primary focus remains on illuminating 21st century research trajectories, offering a comprehensive snapshot of contemporary scholarship in Afrikaans linguistics.

Roots of Afrikaans
Roots of Afrikaans

Author: Hans den Besten

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 902725267X

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Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. This title presents a selection of Den Besten's most important papers concerning the structure and history of Afrikaans.

A Grammar of Afrikaans
A Grammar of Afrikaans

Author: Bruce C. Donaldson

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-05-12

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 3110863154

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The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

The Development of Afrikaans
The Development of Afrikaans

Author: Friedrich Albert Ponelis

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13:

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The development of Afrikaans is investigated within its sociohistorical context from the beginnings of the Afrikaans speech community in the 17th century to the present. Language contact in the loose and heterogeneous early Cape society gave rise to a divergent variety of Dutch later to be named Afrikaans. There was extensive borrowing as well as creolisation due to the strong presence of foreigners who had to acquire Dutch rapidly and under adverse social conditions. Changes in the linguistic core and functions of Afrikaans are set forth in a number of chapters.

English in Multilingual South Africa
English in Multilingual South Africa

Author: Raymond Hickey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1108425348

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An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.

Written Afrikaans since Standardization
Written Afrikaans since Standardization

Author: Johanita Kirsten

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1498577210

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This book focuses on a century of language change, starting early in the 20th century when Standard Afrikaans first emerged. Different areas of language use are explored, such as pronoun use, tenses, possession, and connectives. The changes in these areas are divided into three categories of types of change: paradigmatic changes, grammaticalization, and discursive and socio-cultural changes. The book also includes a short history of the standardization of Afrikaans and brief discussions of some relevant ideological issues. The second and final chapters include an in-depth discussion of the theory of language change and language evolution, as well as reflections on what language change is and how it proceeds. The role of language contact in language change, and language-external influences, are also considered.

Language in South Africa
Language in South Africa

Author: Rajend Mesthrie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-10-17

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9780521791052

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A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.

Focus on South Africa
Focus on South Africa

Author: Vivian De Klerk

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9027248737

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This volume brings together a range of studies on various aspects of English and its use in Southern Africa. Experts in their field have written chapters on topics including the history and development of English in South Africa, the characteristics of particular pan-ethnic varieties of English which have evolved in South Africa (including black, Indian and colored varieties) as well as the unique features of the English of South Africa's southern neighbours: Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Other contributions focus on English in relation to issues such as standardisation, lexicography, education, language planning, language attitudes and interaction patterns. The book will be of primary interest to students of linguistics and language, but should also be relevant to educationists, sociologists and historians.

Form and Meaning in Word Formation
Form and Meaning in Word Formation

Author: Rudolf P. Botha

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-04-27

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780521026130

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This study of reduplication in Afrikaans sheds new light on fundamental lexicalist principles of word formation.