Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics of Cape Dutch by Ana Deumert

Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics of Cape Dutch

IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society #19

Ana Deumert

362 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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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 Afrikaan...

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