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Language standardization and language change : the dynamics of Cape Dutch /

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deumert, Ana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2004.
Colección:Impact, studies in language and society ; 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.