TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deumert,Ana
TI  - Language standardization and language change: the dynamics of Cape Dutch 
T2  - Impact, studies in language and society,
SN  - 9789027295798
AV  - PF861 .D386 2004eb
U1  - 439.3/6 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - J. Benjamins
KW  - Afrikaans language
KW  - Standardization
KW  - History
KW  - Afrikaans (Langue)
KW  - Normalisation
KW  - Histoire
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
KW  - bisac
KW  - African Languages (see also Swahili)
KW  - Dutch
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Standaardisatie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Taalverandering
KW  - Afrikaans
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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