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Introduction
If the above is correct, Ek is veronderstel om te in this case appears to require discontinuous deletion. What is …
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Fronting and exhaustive exclusion in Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew scholars struggle to account for about one third of instances of fronting in the Hebrew Bible in terms …
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Poetry in South African Sign Language: what is different?
Poetry in a sign language can make use of literary devices just as poetry in a spoken language can. The …
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Grammatical polysemy and grammaticalization in cognitive and generative perspectives: finding common ground in inter-generational corpora of ancient languages
Cognitive and generative approaches to linguistics have taken a different perspective on grammatical polysemy and grammaticalization. While the former see …
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A note on root projection and labelling
This paper identifies a problem with a hypothesis put forward in Chomsky (2013) in relation to his labelling algorithm. Chomsky …
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Negative exclamatives in Afrikaans: some initial thoughts
We consider the to date minimally discussed phenomenon of negative exclamatives in Afrikaans. Negative exclamatives superficially seem to be negative, …
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Collapse of genitive and benefactive case in Ecuadorian Quechua?
In Ecuadorian Quechua the markers for genitive and benefactive case have become indistinguishable in form: both are basically -pak. This …
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Nominal marking in Northern Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe)
Languages of the Khoe family have a complex pronominal system that distinguishes three categories each for person, gender, and number. …
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The name of the fourth river: a small puzzle presented by a fragment of Kora, for Johan Oosthuizen
This squib is a brief venture into the minor sub-branch of Linguistics known as Toponomastics, or the study of the …
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The "exotic" nature of ideophones - from Khoekhoe to Xhosa
The present paper analyzes the exoticness of Khoekhoe-sourced ideophones as a possible factor that stimulated the introduction of certain phonological …
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Die slag toe slim sy baas gevang het
The day when the clever arguments misfired. Some very interesting observations can be made in describing the history of the …
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'Ja-nee. No, I'm fine': a note on YES and NO in South Africa
This paper considers some unusual uses of NO and YES observed in South African English (SAE) and other languages spoken …
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The secret nominal life of Afrikaans intransitive adpositions
Languages like Afrikaans are sometimes said to feature a class of adpositions that can be described as “intransitive” (e.g. binne …
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A preliminary look at negative constructions in South African Sign Language: Question-Answer clauses
How negation is expressed by means of manual and/or non-manual markers has been described in a wide range of sign …
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Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa – from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path
The authors argue that the synchronic variation of cognate objects of weather verbs exhibited in six African languages of South …
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Movement in the Afrikaans left periphery: a view from anti-locality
It has been convincingly argued that the so-called “left periphery” of the sentence makes available multiple positions which host topicalised …
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At the interface of syntax and prosody: differentiating Left Dislocated and Tripartite Verbless Clauses in Biblical Hebrew
The so-called tripartite verbless clause in Biblical Hebrew consists of two nominal phrases and a pronominal element. Three analyses of …
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Die vertaling en lokalisering van Terminologie van het tolken vir 'n Suid-Afrikaanse teikengehoor
Although much research is currently undertaken on interpreting in South Africa, the profession and academic discourse lack standardised interpreting terminology, …
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Students’ use of academic vocabulary in comparison to that of published writers: A corpus-driven analysis
An aspect of vocabulary research that tends to be somewhat neglected is that based on qualitative investigation. While a number …