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CONVERGENCE AND THE FORMATION OF AFRIKAANS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2002

Paul T. Roberge
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abstract

As a phenomenon to be explained, convergence in historical linguistics is substantively no different than in creolistics. The general idea is that accommodation by speakers of “established” languages in contact and the formation of new language varieties both involve a process of leveling of different structures that achieve the same referential and nonreferential effects. The relatively short and well-documented history of Afrikaans presents an important case study in the competition and selection of linguistic features during intensive language contact.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Society for Germanic Linguistics

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