Browsing by Subject "Language contact"
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Alternatiewe funksies van Swartafrikaans
(2015)The non-standard variety of Afrikaans, namely Black Afrikaans originated with a view to enable an African language mother tongue speaker and an Afrikaans mother tongue speaker to communicate with and understand each other. ... -
The development of modals of obligation and necessity in white South African English through contact with Afrikaans
(Sage, 2014)This article draws attention to the uniqueness of modality in White South African English (WSAfE), when compared with other native English varieties. This uniqueness is found in the historical development of the modal ... -
Lockdown language : online communication in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)Linguistic studies on South African Englishes and the multilingual repertoires of local citizens have been growing in recent years. Seminal work is being done to describe South African Englishes from phonological, ... -
Modality on trek : diachronic changes in written South African English across text and context
(North West University, 2014)This study describes the diachronic development of modality in South African English (henceforth SAfE) from the early 19th century up to its contemporary state (1820s to 1990s) in the registers of letters, news, fiction/narrative ... -
Syntactic and pragmatic transfer effects in reported-speech constructions in three contact varieties of English influenced by Afrikaans
(Elsevier, 2016)Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) is investigated by various research traditions that examine language contact varieties. This article presents an analysis of syntactic and pragmatic effects of CLI in three corpora of ...
