1. Afrikaans sociohistorical linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of figures xi
4. List of tables xv
5. Acknowledgements xix
6. Introduction 1
7. I. History
8. 1. Afrikaans sociohistorical linguistics 15
9. 2. Afrikaner nationalism and the discovery of the vernacular 45
10. 3. The Corpus of Cape Dutch Correspondence and the social context of language use in the nineteenth century 77
11. II. Variation analysis
12. 4. On the analysis of variability and uniformity 105
13. 5. The gradualness of morphosyntactic change 135
14. 6. Morphological and syntactic variation 179
15. 7. The Cape Dutch variety spectrum 221
16. III. Establishing the norm
17. 8. Engels, Engels, alles Engels 261
18. 9. Social networks and the diffusion of standard Afrikaans 279
19. Epilogue 297
20. Appendix 305
21. References 315
22. Index 355