The Modal Elements mos and maskie in Cape Dutch  

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Roberge, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 24 no. 3-4 (2002), page 397–408.
Topik: Afrikaans; Pidgins; Language change; Adverbs; Extraterritorial languages
Fulltext: 24_03-04_Roberge.pdf (118.54KB)

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In historical linguistics one may confront a feature that could plausibly have either an endogenous or contact origin. Lass (1997. Historical Linguistics and Language Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 209) argues that if ‘‘the (informal) probability weightings of both source-types converge for a given character, then the choice goes to endogeny.’’ However, intensive language contact may produce characteristics that cannot be adequately accounted for in terms of a binary opposition between endogeny and exogeny, as the history of two Cape Dutch modal adverbs illustrates.

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