| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 361 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Impact, studies in language and society,
1385-7908 ;
19
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Impact, studies in language and society ; 19.
1385-7908
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines langu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Afrikaans language -- Standardization.
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Afrikaans language. |
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Standardization. |
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Afrikaans language -- History.
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Deumert, Ana. Language standardization and language change. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2004 1588114929 9781588114921 (DLC) 2003069657 (OCoLC)53992997 |
| ISBN |
9789027295798 (electronic book) |
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9027295794 (electronic book) |
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1588114929 |
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