Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. The origins of the Afrikaans pre-nominal possessive system(s) 7
5. Chapter 2. The complex ancestry of the Afrikaans associative constructions 25
6. Chapter 3. What a little word can do for you 35
7. Chapter 4. Afrikaans relative ‘wat’ and West-Germanic relativization systems 41
8. Chapter 5. Demonstratives in Afrikaans and Cape Dutch Pidgin 61
9. Chapter 6. Speculations on [χ]-elision and intersonorantic [υ] in Afrikaans 79
10. Chapter 7. The Dutch pidgins of the Old Cape colony 95
11. Chapter 8. On the “verbal suffix” - UM of Cape Dutch Pidgin 123
12. Chapter 9. Relexification and pidgin development 133
13. Chapter 10. Khoekhoe syntax and its implications for L2 acquisition of Dutch and Afrikaans 153
14. Chapter 11. Reduplication in Afrikaans 195
15. Chapter 12. Double negation and the genesis of Afrikaans 221
16. Chapter 13. From Khoekhoe foreigner talk via Hottentot Dutch to Afrikaans 257
17. Chapter 14. Creole Portuguese in South Africa 289
18. Chapter 15. The slaves’ languages in the Dutch Cape colony and Afrikaans vir 313
19. Chapter 16. A badly harvested field 333
20. Chapter 17. Desiderata for Afrikaans historical linguistics 355
21. Appreciations
22. Giving voice 377
23. Afrikaans 389
24. Partial restructuring 399
25. Bibliography of Hans den Besten’s writings on Afrikaans 419
26. References 423
27. Language index 447
28. Place index 449
29. Author index 451
30. Subject index 455