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BL
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1014984
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b769354
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| Main Entry
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Deumert, Ana.
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| Title & Author
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Language standardization and language change : : the dynamics of Cape Dutch /\ Ana Deumert.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam ;Philadelphia :: J. Benjamins,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Impact, studies in language and society,; 19
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1 online resource (xx, 361 pages).
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| ISBN
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9027295794
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: 9789027295798
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1588114929
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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Afrikaans language-- History.
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Afrikaans language-- Standardization.
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African Languages (see also Swahili).
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Afrikaans language.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Dutch.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY.
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Afrikaans.
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Standaardisatie.
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Taalverandering.
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| Dewey Classification
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439.3/6
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| LC Classification
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PF861.D386 2004eb
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