Afrikaans: considering origins

Roberge, Paul T.

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“…Nienaber, 1994;van Rensburg, 2016) when a first permanent Dutch settlement was established in the Cape. The emergence and development of Afrikaans out of Dutch has been the object of much debate, with hypotheses ranging from postulations of a purely internal, if accelerated development of dislocated Dutch, to analyses in terms of deep creolisation and adstrate influence from Khoesan languages, South-African Malay, Bantu languages, and Portuguese Creole, and various positions in between (see Roberge, 2002; van Sluijs, 2013 for overviews). Our concern, though, is not the history of the observable linguistic features of Afrikaans, but the competing metadiscourses sanctioning it, or not, as a separate linguistic category and as a standard language fit for governance, written administration, and 'high culture'.…”

Section: South Africamentioning

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‘We don’t need another Afrikaans’. Adequation and distinction in South-African and Flemish language policies

Jaspers

Meeuwis

2019

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It has long been recognised that the similarity or difference between ways of speaking and their possible institutionalisation as 'languages' is an ideological matter, a matter of social opinions, rather than one of objective systemic relatedness. In this paper we wish to emphasise that such social opinions ('language ideologies') in any society are always to some extent competitive, that such lack of consensus is not a temporary or functional stage in between phases of shared opinion but a fundamental aspect of the social life of language, and that the expansion or decline of particular social opinions on language is interactive with cultural changes, metacultural discourses, as well as political agendas. We argue this through a discussion of the valorisation and countervalorisation of linguistic practices in Flanders (Belgium) and South Africa. Drawing attention to discrepancies between articulated and embodied ideologies, we suggest it is the complex interaction of language ideologies with other factors, rather than the mechanical outcome of structural conditions, that drove the eventual recognition of Afrikaans in South Africa and the continuing absence of such a process with respect to 'Flemish' in Flanders.

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Section: South Africamentioning

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‘We don’t need another Afrikaans’. Adequation and distinction in South-African and Flemish language policies

Jaspers

Meeuwis

2019

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“…In the diachronic development of Afrikaans, all of the four logically possible changes that have occurred are shown in Table 1: Table 1. Coda processes in the diachrony of Afrikaans (Conradie 2017;Donaldson 1993;Roberge 2002) Process…”

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Stabilising determinants in the transmission of phonotactic systems: Diachrony and acquisition of coda clusters in Dutch and Afrikaans

Baumann¹,

Wissing

2018

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The phonotactic system of Afrikaans underwent multiple changes in its diachronic development. While some consonant clusters got lost, others still surface in contemporary Afrikaans. In this paper, we investigate to what extent articulatory difference between the segments of a cluster contribute to its successful transmission. We proceed in two steps. First, we analyse the respective effects of differences in manner of articulation, place of articulation and voicing on the age at which a cluster is acquired by analysing Dutch acquisition data. Second, we investigate the role that these articulatory differences play in the diachronic frequency development from Dutch to Afrikaans. We demonstrate that large differences in manner of articulation between segments contribute to a cluster's success in acquisition and diachrony. In contrast, large differences in place of articulation have impeding effects, while voicing difference shows a more complicated behaviour.

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“…This hypothesis competes with two other scenarios that have been proposed with respect to the linguistic development of Afrikaans. According to the creolization view (for example, Valkhoff 1966; Den Besten 1989, 2009a; Roberge 2002, 2009), the grammatical and phonological developments of Afrikaans result from language contact between Dutch, other European languages, Cape Khoekhoe, and various slave languages. The other competing view is commonly referred to as the interlect scenario, whose two main supporters are Ponelis (1990) and Van Rensburg (1996).…”

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The Lenition and Deletion of Medial Voiced Obstruents in Afrikaans: Some Internal, External, and Extralinguistic Factors

Hinskens

2014

J Ger Ling

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In Afrikaans, medial /g/, /v/, and /d/ have often been lenited or deleted, sometimes giving rise to alternations or the restructuring of stem forms. After an analysis of the distribution of the processes, some of the morphological consequences are briefly sketched. In order to find out more about the determinants of the lenition or deletion processes, which do not seem to have applied exceptionlessly, a quantitative analysis of lexicographical data containing over 200 different items was carried out. A number of probabilistic phonological and grammatical conditions were uncovered that provided insight into the rule-typological status of the processes. The lenition or deletion of /d/ appears to be sensitive to usage frequency as well. Some of the exceptions are due to sporadic reborrowing from Dutch. Cape Dutch Pidgin, one of the two main roots of modern Afrikaans, developed as a result of contact between 17th-century Dutch settlers and Cape Khoekhoen, who spoke Nàmá. Properties of the Nàmá phonology suggest that at least in Cape Dutch Pidgin, the obstruents that were subject to the lenition and deletion processes in question constituted a natural class.*

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Afrikaans: considering origins

Cited by 46 publications

References 9 publications

‘We don’t need another Afrikaans’. Adequation and distinction in South-African and Flemish language policies

‘We don’t need another Afrikaans’. Adequation and distinction in South-African and Flemish language policies

Stabilising determinants in the transmission of phonotactic systems: Diachrony and acquisition of coda clusters in Dutch and Afrikaans

The Lenition and Deletion of Medial Voiced Obstruents in Afrikaans: Some Internal, External, and Extralinguistic Factors

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