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  • Chapter 12 - Present-Day Afrikaans in Contact with English

  • from III - Language Interfaces
  • Edited by Raymond Hickey, Universität Duisburg–Essen
  • Book:
    English in Multilingual South Africa
    Published online:
    07 November 2019
    Print publication:
    21 November 2019, pp 241-264

  • 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’.