Paul T Roberge
Biographic Data
| ID | 732286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul T Roberge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul T |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberge |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERGE P T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perfect Auxiliary Doubling in Cape Dutch and Afrikaans
The doubling of auxiliaries ‘have’ and ‘be’ in perfect tense constructions is a European areal phenomenon. It is present in languages of different filiations that have been in contact for a long time. In Dutch its distribution is largely restricted to the southeastern part of Dutch-speaking Belgium and some communities of North Brabant in the Netherlands. Double perfects are attested in contemporary Afrikaans, which is contrary to what we should …
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Nathalie Dion & André Lapierre: Linguistic variation: Confronting fact and theory
Foundations of a “Sane Creology”
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On reconstructing variation in Cape Dutch (1710-1840)
In this essay I shall address some methodological issues concerning the reconstruction of variation in the early history of Afrikaans (roughly 1710-1840), with a view toward theorizing the mechanisms and sociolinguistic forces that underlie the formation of this language. Since discussions of the methodology of evaluating our Cape Dutch source material have been mostly sketchy, and since most scholars have neglected to make their methodology expl…
On the origins of the Afrikaars verbal hendiadys
Hendiadys (Wone by means of two·) in Afrilcaans refers to a syntactic construction in which two verbal elements are connected by a conjunctive particle to express a single complex idea. The first component can be one of five verbs that denote motion (loop 'walk, go') or static modes (/2 'lie', sit 'sit', stlllJ1J 'stand', and, marginally, hang 'hang'). The second component is the main verb. The connecting particle is the conjunction en 'and'
Multilevel syncretism and the evolution of Afrikaans periphrastic possessives with SE
In Dutch three constructions are available to render the possessive relation. One can use the sigmatic genitive after proper nouns and (namelike) NPs denoting close relatives (la, b), the preposition van (Ic), or a weakened form of the possessive pronoun, which varies according to the gender and number of the possesser (ld-t)
Grammtical prerequisites to phonological change
In echoing a well-known title of some thirty-six years ago (Pike 1947), I do not wish to suggest that considerations of meaning and grammatical function have been excluded from the study of diachronic phonology. How to characterize the interface between phonology and morphosyntax across time has stimulated perennial debate, having commanded the attention of several generations of historical linguists from Curtius (1870) and Jespersen (1894) to, m…
The formation of Afrikaans
'If we go back in time, the problem of what Afrikaans is becomes more and more difficult', wrote Valkhoff more than two decades ago (1972:2), and notwithstanding a far better understanding of the material facts, his words remain true today. In what follows I shall elucidate the sociolinguistic nature of the formation of Afrikaans at the Cape of Good Hope. In section 2 I explore the social bases of glottogenesis within a pantheoretical framework i…
Studies in contact linguistics: Essays in honor of Glenn G. Gilbert . Edited by Linda L. Thornburg and Janet M. Fuller
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Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa. By Rachael Gilmour
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The development of creolistics and the study of pidgin languages: An overview
Afrikaans
Convergence and the Formation of Afrikaans
As a phenomenon to be explained, convergence in historical linguistics is substantively no different than in creolistics. The general idea is that accommodation by speakers of “established” languages in contact and the formation of new language varieties both involve a process of leveling of different structures that achieve the same referential and nonreferential effects. The relatively short and well-documented history of Afrikaans presents an …
In Memoriam Carla Luijks
Afrikaans linguistics suffered a major loss with the death of our colleague Carla Luijks, from cancer, on December 30, 2001, at the cruelly young age of 43 (two weeks shy of her 44th birthday).
The Modal Elements mos and maskie in Cape Dutch
Linguistic Ecology: Language Change and Linguistic Imperialism in the Pacific Region
Language and Its Functions: A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the pre-humanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp . By Pieter A. …
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Language as Ideology
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
Afrikaans and the ontogenetic myth
Studies in Dependency Syntax
Studies in Dependency Syntax
Studies in Dependency Syntax
Studies in Dependency Syntax
Afrikaans and the ontogenetic myth
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
Language as Ideology
Linguistic Ecology: Language Change and Linguistic Imperialism in the Pacific Region
Language and Its Functions: A historico-critical study of views concerning the functions of language from the pre-humanistic philology of Orleans to the rationalistic philology of Bopp . By Pieter A. …
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Convergence and the Formation of Afrikaans
As a phenomenon to be explained, convergence in historical linguistics is substantively no different than in creolistics. The general idea is that accommodation by speakers of “established” languages in contact and the formation of new language varieties both involve a process of leveling of different structures that achieve the same referential and nonreferential effects. The relatively short and well-documented history of Afrikaans presents an …
In Memoriam Carla Luijks
Afrikaans linguistics suffered a major loss with the death of our colleague Carla Luijks, from cancer, on December 30, 2001, at the cruelly young age of 43 (two weeks shy of her 44th birthday).
The Modal Elements mos and maskie in Cape Dutch
Afrikaans
The development of creolistics and the study of pidgin languages: An overview
Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa. By Rachael Gilmour
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Studies in contact linguistics: Essays in honor of Glenn G. Gilbert . Edited by Linda L. Thornburg and Janet M. Fuller
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Foundations of a “Sane Creology”
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On reconstructing variation in Cape Dutch (1710-1840)
In this essay I shall address some methodological issues concerning the reconstruction of variation in the early history of Afrikaans (roughly 1710-1840), with a view toward theorizing the mechanisms and sociolinguistic forces that underlie the formation of this language. Since discussions of the methodology of evaluating our Cape Dutch source material have been mostly sketchy, and since most scholars have neglected to make their methodology expl…
On the origins of the Afrikaars verbal hendiadys
Hendiadys (Wone by means of two·) in Afrilcaans refers to a syntactic construction in which two verbal elements are connected by a conjunctive particle to express a single complex idea. The first component can be one of five verbs that denote motion (loop 'walk, go') or static modes (/2 'lie', sit 'sit', stlllJ1J 'stand', and, marginally, hang 'hang'). The second component is the main verb. The connecting particle is the conjunction en 'and'
Multilevel syncretism and the evolution of Afrikaans periphrastic possessives with SE
In Dutch three constructions are available to render the possessive relation. One can use the sigmatic genitive after proper nouns and (namelike) NPs denoting close relatives (la, b), the preposition van (Ic), or a weakened form of the possessive pronoun, which varies according to the gender and number of the possesser (ld-t)
Grammtical prerequisites to phonological change
In echoing a well-known title of some thirty-six years ago (Pike 1947), I do not wish to suggest that considerations of meaning and grammatical function have been excluded from the study of diachronic phonology. How to characterize the interface between phonology and morphosyntax across time has stimulated perennial debate, having commanded the attention of several generations of historical linguists from Curtius (1870) and Jespersen (1894) to, m…
The formation of Afrikaans
'If we go back in time, the problem of what Afrikaans is becomes more and more difficult', wrote Valkhoff more than two decades ago (1972:2), and notwithstanding a far better understanding of the material facts, his words remain true today. In what follows I shall elucidate the sociolinguistic nature of the formation of Afrikaans at the Cape of Good Hope. In section 2 I explore the social bases of glottogenesis within a pantheoretical framework i…
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Nathalie Dion & André Lapierre: Linguistic variation: Confronting fact and theory
Perfect Auxiliary Doubling in Cape Dutch and Afrikaans
The doubling of auxiliaries ‘have’ and ‘be’ in perfect tense constructions is a European areal phenomenon. It is present in languages of different filiations that have been in contact for a long time. In Dutch its distribution is largely restricted to the southeastern part of Dutch-speaking Belgium and some communities of North Brabant in the Netherlands. Double perfects are attested in contemporary Afrikaans, which is contrary to what we should …
Philosophy (20 works) · Linguistics (18 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works)