The Afrikaans tense system, like most of the Afrikaans grammar, originated from early modern Dutch. However, during the formation and development of Afrikaans, the Dutch inflectional system was extensively simplified, and along with it the tense system. Currently, only a present and an analytic pa...
Afrikaans in Argentinië : 'n linguistiese en sosiolinguistiese beskrywing thereplacement of AFR A by Spanish, a process that has not been completedyet.To investigate this atrophying linguistic form, sociolinguistic fieldworkbased on the work of Haugen (1972), Labov (1972) and Milroy (1980)...
than in knowing what the Ju/’hoansi wanted to tell us in their own terms in the mid-1990s. Speaking Afrikaans and Herero proved to be a boon, as it was in these languages that the Ju/’hoansi sometimes