The Development of AfrikaansThe 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. |
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adjectives Afrikaans Afrikaans Hollands attested attributive base become borrowed Cape clause close colloquial combination common complex construction contains daar derived developed dialectal discussed documents doen early eighteenth century ending English especially extended final formal forms French function gaan German haar hand heeft Holland hulle imperfect indicates infinitive inflection influence initial instances Khoi kind language letter Literature loans maar Malay mijn moet names niet nineteenth century noun object occurs original person phrases plural Portuguese possessive prepositional pronouns relative remained Scholtz seventeenth century singular slaves soos speech spoken Standard Dutch stems strong structure Table tense texts variant varieties verb vowel weak weet written
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| Title | The Development of Afrikaans Volume 18 of Duisberg papers on research in language and culture, ISSN 0934-3709 Volume 18 of Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft, ISSN 0934-3709 Volume 18 of Studien Zur Klassischen Philologie |
| Authors | Fritz Ponelis, Friedrich Albert Ponelis |
| Publisher | P. Lang, 1993 |
| ISBN | 3631434987, 9783631434987 |
| Length | 616 pages |
| Subjects | › Foreign Language Study / General |
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