Roots of Afrikaans : selected writings of Hans den Besten / / edited by Ton van der Wouden

• Autore: Besten Hans den
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (466 pages)
• Disciplina: 439.3/682421
• Soggetto topico: Afrikaans language - Etymology; Afrikaans language - Grammar; Afrikaans language - History; Languages in contact; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Altri autori: WoudenTon van der <1958-> BestenHans den
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Roots of Afrikaans; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Hans den Besten's involvement with Afrikaans; 2. Afrikaans and the history of South Africa; 3. Structure of the present volume; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. The origins of the Afrikaans pre-nominal possessive system(s); 1. Introduction: Questions about Afrikaans possessive structures; 2. PNP constructions in Dutch and Afrikaans; 2.1 Data 1: Attributive pronominal possessives; 2.2 Data 2: Attributive nominal possessives; 2.3 Data 3: Free possessives; 2.4 Summing up the problems ; 3. A tentative descriptive model for PNP constructions; 3.1 Attributive possessives; 3.2 Free possessives; 4. The founder dialect and variation in (Early Modern) Afrikaans; 5. Possessive constructions in the substrate languages; 5.1 Possessive constructions in Pasar Malay; 5.2 Possessive constructions in Asian Creole Portuguese and Khoekhoe; 5.3 Substrate? Which substrate?; 6. Possessive constructions in Cape Dutch Pidgin and a new source for se; 7. Summing up; Acknowledgment; Chapter 2. The complex ancestry of the Afrikaans associative constructions; 1. Introduction ; 2. Afrikaans associative structures and a bit of language typology; 3. Previous scholarship; 4. New hypotheses: Khoekhoe and the Eastern Malay dialects (and beyond); 5. Concluding remarks; Chapter 3. What a little word can do for you; 1. Relativization in Afrikaans; 2. WHAT as a WH-marker in Afrikaans; 3. WHAT in possessive relatives; Chapter 4. Afrikaans relative 'wat' and West-Germanic relativization systems; 1. Introduction1; 2. Systems of relativization; 3. West-Germanic relativization systems and Afrikaans ; 3.1 West-Germanic relativization systems and the analysis of the relativization system of Afrikaans; 3.2 West-Germanic relativization systems and the provenance of the Afrikaans relativization system; 4. The age of the relativization system of Afrikaans; 5. Concluding remarks; Chapter 5. Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin; 1. Introduction; 2. The origins of dit; 2.1 Cautioning remarks; 2.2 Afrikaans linguistics on the origins of dit; 2.3 Personal pronouns and afr. dit; 2.4 Where does afr. dit come from?; 3. Potential evidence from CDP; 4. More on dat/dit in Khoekhoe Afrikaans ; 5. The origins of dié 'this,these'5.1 The various usages of dié; 5.2 The origins of proximate dié; 6. Concluding remarks; Chapter 6. Speculations on [χ]-elision and intersonorantic [υ] in Afrikaans*; 1. Introduction; 2. [χ]-elision and strengthening: Some data; 2.1 [χ]-elision: A first set of data; 2.2 Strengthening [χ] after sonorant consonants; 2.3 Strengthening [χ] after vowels; 2.4 Additional remarks; 3. [χ]-elision: An hypothesis; 3.1 Raidt (1983) on [χ]-elision; 3.2 The relationship between [χ]-elision and [χ]-strengthening; 4. A parallel case; 5. Diachronic and dialectal data; 6. Back to the hypothesis: Language contact and internal development
• Sommario/riassunto: Hans den Besten (1948-2010) made numerous contributions to Afrikaans linguistics over a period of nearly three decades. His writings helped shift the perspective on the roots of Afrikaans beyond Dutch to the structure and vocabulary of Khoekhoe, to Portuguese Creole, and to Malay varieties. This volume contains a selection of Den Besten's most important papers - some of which originally appeared in less accessible journals - concerning the structure and history of Afrikaans. They cover a wide range of topics, including grammatical structure, vocabulary, the historical development of Afrikaans,
• Titolo autorizzato: Roots of Afrikaans
• ISBN: 1-280-67686-8; 9786613653796; 90-272-7382-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822161903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; 44.