The Standard Dutch Grammar for South Africa
Author: Hubertus Elffers
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
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Language Standardization and Language Change
Author: Ana Deumert
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9789027218575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.
Dutch: An Essential Grammar
Author: William Z. Shetter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1134099584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloped with the beginner in mind, this Grammar uses abundant examples and extensive cross-referencing to present the language in an engaging and accessible manner. Features include: core vocabulary for each unit a Dutch-English glossary three short stories further reading and resources. This is an ideal companion to a classroom-based course, helping to further explain and reinforce the grammar content of any chosen textbook. It is also an invaluable tool for independent learners.
Language in South Africa
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-17
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780521791052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Dutch
Author: William Z. Shetter
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780415235020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition presents an accessible description of Dutch, supported throughout by diagrams and examples. An improved pronunciation guide now been introduced and the vocabulary brought up to date.
A Grammar of Afrikaans
Author: Bruce C. Donaldson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 3110863154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Variation in the Grammar of Black South African English
Author: Verena Minow
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9783631601488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack South African English, the variety of English used by mother-tongue speakers of South Africa's indigenous languages, has received considerable attention during the last two decades. However, so far most of the accounts of this variety have been only qualitative in nature. This book reports on one of the first studies offering extensive quantitative analyses of four typical features of Black South African English grammar: omission of past tense marking, extended use of the progressive aspect, article omission, and use of left dislocation. Drawing on a corpus of spoken data, the study's focus lies on the investigation of the stability of the selected features and hence aims to ascertain which of these are characteristic of Black South African English as a whole. Speakers exhibiting differing levels of competence in English are compared. It is shown that the analysed features are used by speakers of Black South African English regardless of their proficiency level, but, at the same time, there are considerable differences concerning the frequency of occurrence of these features.
Biblical Hebrew in Context
Author: Koert van Bekkum
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 900438085X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor half a century Jan P. Lettinga (1921), Professor emeritus of Semitic Languages at the Theological University Kampen (Broederweg), greatly influenced the teaching of Biblical Hebrew in the Faculties of Theology, Religious Studies and Semitic Languages in the Netherlands and Belgium by his widely used grammar. This volume honours his legacy and reputation as a Semitist. Lettinga always asked how a historical approach of the Semitic languages and literature would contribute to their understanding, and how this elucidates our reading of the Hebrew Scriptures. Biblical Hebrew in Context applies this approach to issues reflecting the full breadth of Lettinga’s interests: Mesopotamian and Biblical Law, the history, grammar and teaching of Hebrew and Aramaic, and the translation and interpretation of Ugaritic and Old Testament texts.
Area Handbook for the Republic of South Africa
Author: Irving Kaplan
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 864
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Missing Spanish Creoles
Author: John McWhorter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-07-03
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0520219996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in the New World.
