Research on the relationship between grammatical aspect and motion event construal has posited that speakers of non-aspect languages are more prone to encoding event endpoints than are speakers of aspect languages (e.g., von Stutterheim and Carroll 2011). In the present study, we test this hypothesis by extending this line of inquiry to Afrikaans, a non-aspect language which is previously unexplored in this regard. Motion endpoint behavior among Afrikaans speakers was measured by means of a linguistic retelling task and a non-linguistic similarity judgment task, and then compared with the behavior of speakers of a non-aspect language (Swedish) and speakers of an aspect language (English). Results showed the Afrikaans speakers' endpoint patterns aligned with Swedish patterns, but were significantly different from English patterns. It was also found that the variation among the Afrikaans speakers could be partially explained by taking into account their frequency of use of English, such that those who used English more frequently exhibited an endpoint behavior that was more similar to English speakers. The current study thus lends further support to the hypothesis that speakers of different languages attend differently to event endpoints as a function of the grammatical category of aspect.

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Motion event cognition and grammatical aspect: Evidence from Afrikaans

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The syntax of verbal pseudo-coordination in English and Afrikaans

Afrikaans speech norms and prescriptive Afrikaans norms : is there enough scope for grammatical diversity in Standard Afrikaans?
Afrikaans may be a standardized language, but it is acknowledged that the standardization it has undergone is not quite thorough and should be continued, particularly at the grammatical level. How the standardization process should be continued has, however, been the topic of a debate that emerged in the 1990s : should Standard Afrikaans reflect spoken varieties or its own written tradition? The origin of that debate was the fear that the gap between Standard Afrikaans and spoken varieties would, in the long term, widen and alienate a growing number of Afrikaans speakers, undermining its position and status in the process. Against today's background of the diminishing visibility of Standard Afrikaans not only in the media but also in education, that debate arguably deserves to be reopened once more. But then, arguably, that debate cannot dispense with a clear idea of linguistic variation in the Afrikaans speech community, and in particular in the informal register. And the central question which must be asked in reference to that informal register is : how deep is the imprint that Standard Afrikaans has left on it as a result of compulsory education and exposure to the media? And considering today's changed sociolinguistic settings : is that imprint diminishing, allowing informal spoken Afrikaans to evolve its own rules?
Les normes de l'Afrikaans parle et de l'Afrikaans standard : y a-t-il lieu de reconnaitre la diversite grammaticale de l'Afrikaans?
Dans le contexte sociolinguistique actuel ou l'Afrikaans, dans sa forme prescriptive, perd en visibilite, il semble approprie de reouvrir un ancien debat : l'Afrikaans standard doit-il refleter les normes du registre Afrikaans informel ou sa propre tradition ecrite? Il est difficile de repondre a cette question sans un examen preliminaire de la variation qui prevaut actuellement dans l'Afrikaans parle. Pour faciliter cette tâche, nous avons assemble un corpus d'Afrikaans parle sous la forme de sept echantillons composes de locuteurs Blancs et Metis, subdivises en trois groupes generationnels. Afin de determiner s'il y a lieu ou non de parler de convergence vers l'Afrikaans standard, un total de 15 variables morphosyntactiques a ete selectionne et soumis a une analyse statistique. Les resultats de cette analyse montrent qu'il peut y avoir convergence entre echantillons soit en direction de la variante prescriptive, soit en direction de la variante non-standard. Il s'avere que, dans tous les cas, les locuteurs Blancs restent les plus proches de la norme prescriptive. Il s'avere aussi que, malgre l'ecart systematique observable entre Blancs et Metis, tous deux ont generalement tendance a converger mutuellement, sans que cette convergence ne se fasse necessairement en direction de la norme prescriptive.

Afrikaanse spreektaalnormen en prescriptieve Afrikaanse normen: is er genoeg ruimte voor grammaticale diversiteit in het standaard-Afrikaans?

Die grammatikalisering van aspek in Afrikaans : 'n semantiese studie van perifrastiese progressiewe konstruksies

There has been a tradition of treating geographical factors and social structures as distinct variables in research on language variation within single speech communities, and as a result their mode of interaction has not yet been theorized (Britain 2002). At which point geography, in its human and physical dimensions, precedes or follows social structures in the configuration of language variation seems to depend on two potentially related factors, i.e. the strength or weakness of social network ties, as well as the propensity of a given society to maintain ethnic divides. Of interest here is how far a recent political border can geographically disrupt formerly homogeneous patterns of language variation within a single, yet ethnically divided speech community, and, conversely, how far a range of social factors co-defined by ethnicity can ensure the maintenance of linguistic homogeneity irrespective of new political configurations of space.
Variation in Afrikaans has rarely been characterized in terms of the political border separating Namibia (formerly South West Africa or S.W.A.) and South Africa ever since Independence in 1990. Instead, the varieties spoken in S.W.A./Namibia have pretty much been regarded as a constellation of relocated South African varieties. It seems fair to assume that, up until Independence, these varieties had little sociolinguistic scope for diverging from their South African counterparts and that a state of continuum prevailed on account of greater freedom of movement across the border as well as similar degrees of exposure to prescriptive Standard Afrikaans through education.
The main question we want to answer here is how much potential for disruption of that continuum, if it prevailed at all, has been brought about by Namibia's political border and its sociolinguistic implications, and whether that potential warrants the use of the label "Namibian Afrikaans" in reference to the Afrikaans varieties spoken in Namibia.

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Is there a Namibian Afrikaans? Recent trends in grammatical variation in Afrikaans varieties within and across Namibia's borders

Die grammatika van tyd en modaliteit

Werkwoordsvorme in Afrikaans in die verlede tyd

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Die grammatika van tyd en modaliteit

Werkwoordsvorme in Afrikaans in die verlede tyd