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Chapter 12 - Present-Day Afrikaans in Contact with English

from III - Language Interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2019

By
Bertus van Rooy
Edited by
Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
Affiliation:
Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Summary

Afrikaans has been in contact for the past two centuries. Such contact and its linguistic effects have often been interpreted as a threat to the vitality or linguistic integrity of the Afrikaans language. Code-switching and code-mixing are an area of extensive influence and serve as an overt identity marker for many Afrikaans speakers, most particularly its Coloured native speakers in the Western Cape. Vocabulary borrowing, including loan translation, occur in areas where speakers of Afrikaans come into contact with a changing world through English, in domains such as government, industry, sport and entertainment, and modern technology. Grammatical changes under English influence are attested in areas where Afrikaans experiences ongoing change away from its Dutch input forms, but also show creativity on the part of Afrikaans speakers, and not simple adoption of English patterns, for instance in complementiser constructions, newly grammaticalised demonstratives, and pronominal uses of een ‘one’.

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language contactcode-mixingborrowinggrammatical changecontact-induced language change
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English in Multilingual South Africa
The Linguistics of Contact and Change
 , pp. 241 - 264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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