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Language standardization and language change : the dynamics of Cape Dutch / / Ana Deumert
| Language standardization and language change : the dynamics of Cape Dutch / / Ana Deumert |
| Autore | Deumert Ana |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 361 pages) |
| Disciplina | 439.3/6 |
| Collana | Impact, studies in language and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Afrikaans language - Standardization
Afrikaans language - History |
| ISBN |
9786612160660
9781282160668 1282160664 9789027295798 9027295794 |
| Classificazione | GV 1400 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Language Standardization and Language Change; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; History; Afrikaans sociohistorical linguistics; Afrikaner nationalism and the discovery of the vernacular; The Corpus of Cape Dutch Correspondence and the social context of language use in the nineteenth century; Variation analysis; On the analysis of variability and uniformity; The gradualness of morphosyntactic change; Morpholexical and syntactic variation; The Cape Dutch variety spectrum |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910955027603321 |
Deumert Ana
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2004 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Roots of Afrikaans : selected writings of Hans den Besten / / edited by Ton van der Wouden
| Roots of Afrikaans : selected writings of Hans den Besten / / edited by Ton van der Wouden |
| Autore | Besten Hans den |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (466 pages) |
| Disciplina | 439.3/682421 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WoudenTon van der <1958->
BestenHans den |
| Collana | Creole language library |
| Soggetto topico |
Afrikaans language - Etymology
Afrikaans language - Grammar Afrikaans language - History Languages in contact Grammar, Comparative and general |
| ISBN |
9786613653796
9781280676864 1280676868 9789027273826 9027273820 |
| Classificazione | GV 1400 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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