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Complexity in word–formation processes in New Varieties of South African English
(Taylor & Francis/Routledge/NISC, 2010)
The research question posed in the article is whether South African English (SAE) has reached Phase four of Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes. This phase is characterised by early indications of ...
Presidential Address delivered art the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, on December 4, 2008, at the 14th annual meeting of the International Association for World Englishes Social and linguistic perspectives on variablilty in world Englishes
(Wiley, 2010)
Linguistic variability is a peripheral concern to many linguistic approaches. This paper argues that much is gained by taking variability seriously. An examination of the views of Trudgill and Schneider leads to a number ...
Die gebruik van konjunksiemerkers by nagraadse studente en gepubliseerde navorsing oor Afrikaanse taal– en letterkunde
((SAALT/SAVTO) South African Association of Language Teaching / Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig // Sabinet, 2011)
The line of argumentation in a well-structured argumentative text or academic essay should exhibit logical continuity. Conjunction markers are one of the resources that writers can use to achieve this objective. By means ...
Corpus linguistic work on Black South African English
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Dutch and Afrikaans as post–pluricentric languages
(De Gruyter, 2011)
The relationship between Afrikaans and Dutch cannot be captured adequately by the construct of pluricentrism. However, to deny a connection of a similar kind would leave aspects of the historical and current relationship ...
A multidimensional analysis of student writing in Black South African English
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008)
Evidence for the status of Black South African English (BlSAfE) as a variety of English is ambiguous. This paper examines 67 linguistic features of a corpus of BlSAfE student writing, the Tswana Learner English Corpus ...
A principled distinction between error and conventionalized innovation in African Englishes
(John Benjamins publishing company, 2011)
A distinction between error and conventionalized innovation is essential to understanding if and how New Varieties of English develop new conventions. This chapter proposes two criteria, grammatical stability and acceptability, ...
Dutch and Afrikaans as post-pluricentric languages
(De Gruyter, 2011)
The relationship between Afrikaans and Dutch cannot be captured adequately
by the construct of pluricentrism. However, to deny a connection of a similar
kind would leave aspects of the historical and current relationship ...
Complexity in word-formation processes in new varieties of South African English
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)
The research question posed in the article is whether South African English (SAE)
has reached Phase four of Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes. This
phase is characterised by early indications of ...
Diachronic changes in modality in South African English
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2012)
In this paper we aim to contribute to both the synchronic and diachronic description of the grammar of South African English (SAfE) in its written register. In the handful of previous studies on the variety’s grammar (e.g. ...