Alexander Andrason
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 708709 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexander Andrason |
| PRENOMES | Alexander |
| SOBRENOME | Andrason |
| ASSINATURA | ANDRASON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8507-9824 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Assessing the Vitality of Maasai
The current vitality of the Maasai language may be evaluated by analyzing the language portraits produced by secondary-school students in the predominantly Maasai region of Arusha. Two kinds of data – pictorial (presentational) and verbal (discursive) – suggest that a devaluation of Maasai, which has been observed previously among the older generation of school-age children’s parents, is evident in this generation of children as well. Three facto…
Is the contrasting correlation between the consonantality of conative animal calls and the vocalicity of interjections accidental or motivated? The case of Gorwaa
This article studies the potential motivation (or, on the contrary, accidentality) of the consonantal nature of conative animal calls (CACs) as contrasted with the vocalic nature of interjections. The authors examine this issue by drawing on data from Gorwaa and locating them within a broader typological context. The evidence presented suggests that Gorwaa CACs exhibit a markedly consonantal character, manifested through a set of more specific ph…
A language of resistance
This article is dedicated to the pro-Palestinian linguistic landscape (PPLL) of Cape Town. An analysis of 239 signs reveals that the linguistic landscape of this research site is highly complex. The signage is diverse with regard to its physicality (modality, materiality, and compositionality), lingualism (languages used, their formal properties, and mutual configurations), and functionality (authorship, readership, purposes, domains of use, and …
Typological, Phylogenetic, and Areal Properties of Conative Animal Calls in Ewe
This article is dedicated to conative animal calls (CACs) in Ghanaian Ewe (Kwa). The study is couched within a ‘radial-network-with-prototype-effects’ approach to linguistic categorisation and examines the typological features of CACs (phonetics and morphology) as well as their phylogenetic (cognate) and areal (contact-induced) properties. Drawing on previous works on CACs, fieldwork activities involving seven speakers of Ewe, and the native-spea…
The effects of decolonial praxis on leaders of transformative movements
While the effects experienced by the leaders of radical transformative movements at universities in South Africa and other countries have become evident over the last decades, the scholarly discussion and theorisation thereof, especially by those directly involved in these movements, has been scarce. This article addresses this knowledge gap and discusses the consequences suffered by the leaders of a small, albeit no less radically transformative…
Reclaiming Multilingualism
This article studies the visibility of African languages (official/statal and non-official/non-statal as well as autochthonous/traditional and migrant/new) in the linguistic landscape (LL) of three nei ghborhoods in Cape Town (South Africa): Observatory, Salt River and Woodstock. The empirical evidence demonstrates that African languages are highly visible in the signage, both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Signs with African languages ar…
Conative “kisses” in human-to-animal communication
The present article offers the first systematic scholarly analysis of ConKisses, i.e., a sub-class of conative animal calls (i.e., directives addressed to animals) that draw on speech kisses (i.e., sounds that are made with a kiss-like articulatory mechanism). The author examines the pragma-semantics, phonetics, and morphology of ConKisses in 50 languages within a prototype-driven approach to categorization and concludes the following: ConKisses …
Hunting gestures in Tjwao
Hunting gestures, i.e., gestures used to avoid scaring away prey or raising the attention of predators, are a central part of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of many foragers. These gestures have been documented for several groups in Southern Africa. This article is dedicated to such gestures, specifically those used by the speakers of a moribund East Kalahari Khoe language – Tjwao. It documents the hunting gestures collected in the villages of San…
Instability of interactives
This article studies the morpho-phonetic instability of interactives through the example of Gorwaa interjections. The analysis of 91 constructions demonstrates that, in Gorwaa, interjections are highly unstable: the number of idiolectal interjections is much larger than that of shared interjections, and the interjections of both sets form clusters – spaces composed of constructions connected through the family resemblance of a formal and function…
Conative animal calls in Macha Oromo
This article studies the category of conative animal calls (CACs) in a Cushitic variety – Macha Oromo (Ethiopia). The authors analyze the function (pragma-semantics) and form (phonetics and morphology) of 52 CACs collected during fieldwork activities and conclude the following: the category of CACs in Macha Orono largely complies with the prototype of a CAC posited recently in literature. Moreover, Macha Oromo data suggest a few novel generalizat…
Grammaticalization in Fanakalo
The present article studies the structure of the resultative stream (a part of the verbal system that hosts grams diachronically evolving along and synchronically modelled by means of the resultative path: resultative > perfect > perfective/past and resultative > stative > present) in the Fanakalo pidgin as compared to the lexifier Nguni languages (Zulu/Xhosa). The evidence indicates that the organization of the resultative stream in Fanakalo is …
The Grammar of Conative Animal Calls
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Doing – Reflecting – Comprehending, Or
The present auto-ethnographic article examines the compliance of an educational experiment implemented at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) with anarchist pedagogy. After describing this experiment, reflecting on it, and evaluating it within anarchist pedagogical theory, the authors conclude the following: overall, the teaching and learning model implemented approximates the anarchist ideals to a considerable extent. However, this compliance…
The Must ( musieć ) Serial Verb Construction in Polish
The present article is dedicated to a bi-verbal construction built around the verb musieć ‘must’ and another finite verb, e.g., musiał poszedł ‘he must have left.’ By testing this construction for the various properties associated with the cross-linguistic prototype of a serial verb construction, the author concludes the following: the construction with musieć ‘must’ complies with the serial-verb-construction prototype to a high extent, thus cons…
Language simplification in endangered languages
The present paper examines a hypothetical correlation between language endangerment and the simplification of nominal and verbal inflections. After contrasting the complexities exhibited by two endangered languages (Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl and Wymysorys) with the complexities of their non-endangered predecessors (Older Nahuatl and Middle High German, respectively), the authors conclude that the endangerment-simplification entanglement cannot be …
The meaning and form of onomatopoeias in Tjwao
The present article analyzes the meaning and form of onomatopoeias in Tjwao, a Khoe-Kwadi (Kalahari Khoe) language. Making use of a prototype approach to categorization, a corpus of 113 onomatopoeic lexemes were tested for their compliance with the semantic, phonetic, and morphological features associated with the prototype of onomatopoeias in scholarly literature. The evidence demonstrates that Tjwao onomatopoeias tend to instantiate the prototy…
Talking to animals in a moribund language
The present article is dedicated to conative animal calls (CACs) in a Kalahari Khoe language, Tjwao. By using a prototype approach to categorization, the authors test the Tjwao CACs for their compliance with the prototype of CACs posited recently in scholarly literature. The authors conclude that Tjwao CACs largely conform to the pragma-semantic, phonetic, and morphological properties associated with CACs across languages. In light of the Tjwao d…
Ideophones in Arusa Maasai
The present article is dedicated to the syntax, morphology, and phonetics of ideophones in Arusa Maasai. After examining the compliance of 69 ideophonic lexemes with the typologically driven prototype of an ideophone, the authors conclude that Arusa ideophones may range from canonical to non-canonical even within a single language module. When syntax, morphology, and phonetics are considered jointly, holophrastic and asyntagmatic ideophones are m…
We don’t need another hero!”
The present article shifts the focus and burden of whistleblowing away from an individual to the collective and argues for the necessary incorporation of whistleblowing into an ethical infrastructure in institutions of higher education. The authors argue that institutions of higher learning should be understood as collective agents bestowed with ethical responsibility which obliges them to act in an ethical manner. The fundamental principle guidi…
Argument structure of emotive interjections
The Historical Present qātēl in Biblical Aramaic
This article offers a typologically-driven and corpus-based analysis of the historical present (HP) "active participle" qātēl in Biblical Aramaic. The authors argue that qātēl instantiates the HP category quite neatly and provide three main arguments. First, qātēl complies with the definition of a progredient/propulsive HP that emerges from crosslinguistic literature: while, in its prototypical use, qātēl expresses some type(s) of present, it may…
Laughter interjections in Xhosa
The present paper analyzes the system of laughter-based interjections (L-INTJs) in Xhosa. By drawing on corpus and fieldwork evidence, the author concludes the following: the systems of L-INTJs consists of five types of constructions built around the segments ha, he, ho, hi, and yha, the satellites te and ti, as well as a number of replicative templates. The pattern hVhVhV with a short vowel is the most productive. Other replicative patterns, pat…
Conative calls to animals
Abstracct The present article expands our empirical and theoretical knowledge of conative animal calls (CACs) in the languages of the world. By drawing on canonical typology and prototype theory – and by contrasting the original evidence related to the category of CACs in Arusa Maasai with the evidence concerning CACs in other languages that is currently available in scholarship – the authors design a cross-linguistic prototype of a CAC and enume…
Ideophones as Linguistic “Rebels”
This paper contributes to the study of the structural distinctiveness of the category of ideophony. The author analyzes the extent to which Xhosa ideophones exhibit the so-called extra-systematic properties, which cross-linguistically tend to distinguish ideophones from other lexical classes. The analysis demonstrates that ideophones are relatively extra-systematic in Xhosa, although their extra-systematicity is not unitary. It is the largest in …
The (crucial yet neglected) category of interjections in Xhosa
The present paper analyzes the category of interjections in Xhosa within a prototype approach. The evidence demonstrates the robustness and internal complexity of the interjectional category. Interjections ranges from canonical and asystematic to non-canonical and (relatively) systematic, with emotive primary interjections entertaining the highest extent of interjectionality and asystematicity
Interjections in Tjwao
The present paper provides a systematic description of interjections in a moribund Eastern Kalahari Khoe language - Tjwao. After analysing original evidence within a prototype-driven approach, the authors conclude the following: (a) in Tjwao, the interjectional lexical class constitutes an internally diverse category confined between the canonical centre and a non-prototypical periphery; and (b) primary emotive interjections exhibit the highest d…
Contact Languages of the Ancient Near East – Three more Case Studies (Ugaritic-Hurrian, Hurro-Akkadian and Canaano-Akkadian)
This article describes and analyzes three situations of linguistic contact in the Ancient Near East, taking as its staring point three theoretical studies on contact languages which have been developed recently: the framework of mixed languages (Bakker and Matras, 2013; Meakins, 2013), the theory of written language contact (Johanson, 2013) and the approach to contact among genetically related languages (Epps, Huehnergard and Pat-El, 2013a). The …
We don’t need another hero!”
The present article shifts the focus and burden of whistleblowing away from an individual to the collective and argues for the necessary incorporation of whistleblowing into an ethical infrastructure in institutions of higher education. The authors argue that institutions of higher learning should be understood as collective agents bestowed with ethical responsibility which obliges them to act in an ethical manner. The fundamental principle guidi…
Argument structure of emotive interjections
Biblical Hebrew Wayyiqtol
A concise, non-reductionist and non-taxonomist synchronically valid definition of the Biblical Hebrew wayyiqtol is based on findings of evolutionary linguistics and panchronic methodology. The author demonstrates the following: all semantic and functional properties (such as taxis, aspectual, temporal, modal and discourse-pragmatic values) of the wayyiqtol may be unified and rationalized as a single dynamic category: advanced portions of the ante…
Expressions of futurity in the Vilamovicean language
The present paper aims at presenting all major morphosyntactic means of expressing future meaning in Vilamovicean, the smallest Germanic language spoken in the town of Wilamowice in Southern Poland. As will be demonstrated – and contrary to the opinion found in the literature published so far – the concept of futurity is not limited to the wada future but, rather, can be conveyed by a number of constructions. These forms may be divided into two m…
"The Basse Mandinka "future
The present paper provides a detailed analysis of the semantic content of the BE...LA formation found in the Basse Mandinka language. It demonstrates that the meaning of this locution corresponds to a complex set of various temporal, aspectual and modal senses: perfective and imperfective future, future perfect, future-in-the-past, intentional future, future with imperative and prohibitive nuances, real factuality as well as real and unreal count…
Description of the semantic potential of the si-construction in Basse Mandinka
The present paper provides a detailed description of the semantic potential offered by the si-construction in Basse Mandinka (a regional variety of the Gambian Mandinka language), by enumerating all temporal, aspectual, taxis and modal values which this verbal form may convey. The study demonstrates that the si-construction offers a wide range of senses. Most commonly, the construction introduces the idea of futurity, regularly accompanied by mod…
The case system of the Vilamovicean adjective – from description to explanation
The present paper offers a detailed description and analysis of the adjectival declensional patterns in the Modern Vilamovicean language. The idiom possesses six declensional patterns – restricted to distinct environments – that, from a morphological perspective, form a continuum ranging from a strong declension (classes 1, 2 and 3) to a weak one (class 6), through intermediate mixed paradigms (classes 4 and 5). Nowadays, only the mixed and weak …
Contact Languages of the Ancient Near East – Three more Case Studies (Ugaritic-Hurrian, Hurro-Akkadian and Canaano-Akkadian)
This article describes and analyzes three situations of linguistic contact in the Ancient Near East, taking as its staring point three theoretical studies on contact languages which have been developed recently: the framework of mixed languages (Bakker and Matras, 2013; Meakins, 2013), the theory of written language contact (Johanson, 2013) and the approach to contact among genetically related languages (Epps, Huehnergard and Pat-El, 2013a). The …
The Present-Future in Amorite
The present note discusses the problem of a paradigmatic present-future form in the Amorite language. By employing the continuum model of language evolution and dialectal classification and using the comparative, typological and empirical evidence, the authors conclude that Amorite must have had a systematic category with the meaning of a dynamic present-future. They argue that, out of the two possible candidates – i.e., yaqattal and yaqtulu – it…
The Argument-Adjunct Scale
This paper examines the categorial status of applied elements in Xhosa with respect to their argumenthood or adjuncthood. By analyzing the response of nominal and locative applied elements to various criteria and diagnostics and by adopting the hypothesis of a scalar distinction between arguments and adjuncts, the author proposes the following: The applied noun phrase approaches the prototype of argumenthood to a great degree, while the applied l…
The wziąć gram in Polish. A serial verb construction, or not
This article analyzes the categorial status of the wziąć gram – a construction that is composed of two consecutive inflected verbs: the minor verb wziąć ‘lit. take’ (V 1 ) and a major verb (V 2 ) – within the radial network of serial verb constructions (SVC). After comparing the wziąć gram with properties associated with the prototype of a SVC and its cross-linguistic instantiations, the author concludes that the construction can be regarded as a…
The (crucial yet neglected) category of interjections in Xhosa
The present paper analyzes the category of interjections in Xhosa within a prototype approach. The evidence demonstrates the robustness and internal complexity of the interjectional category. Interjections ranges from canonical and asystematic to non-canonical and (relatively) systematic, with emotive primary interjections entertaining the highest extent of interjectionality and asystematicity
Verbal Serialization in Biblical Aramaic
The present paper discusses the issue of Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Biblical Aramaic within the dynamic grammaticalization-based model of verbal serialization – a recent modification of a prototype-driven approach to SVCs used in linguistic typology. Having analyzed the entire corpus of Biblical Aramaic, the authors conclude the following: (a) verbal serialization constitutes an integral part of the verbal system of Biblical Aramaic; (b)…
Interjections in Tjwao
The present paper provides a systematic description of interjections in a moribund Eastern Kalahari Khoe language - Tjwao. After analysing original evidence within a prototype-driven approach, the authors conclude the following: (a) in Tjwao, the interjectional lexical class constitutes an internally diverse category confined between the canonical centre and a non-prototypical periphery; and (b) primary emotive interjections exhibit the highest d…
Laughter interjections in Xhosa
The present paper analyzes the system of laughter-based interjections (L-INTJs) in Xhosa. By drawing on corpus and fieldwork evidence, the author concludes the following: the systems of L-INTJs consists of five types of constructions built around the segments ha, he, ho, hi, and yha, the satellites te and ti, as well as a number of replicative templates. The pattern hVhVhV with a short vowel is the most productive. Other replicative patterns, pat…
Conative calls to animals
Abstracct The present article expands our empirical and theoretical knowledge of conative animal calls (CACs) in the languages of the world. By drawing on canonical typology and prototype theory – and by contrasting the original evidence related to the category of CACs in Arusa Maasai with the evidence concerning CACs in other languages that is currently available in scholarship – the authors design a cross-linguistic prototype of a CAC and enume…
Ideophones as Linguistic “Rebels”
This paper contributes to the study of the structural distinctiveness of the category of ideophony. The author analyzes the extent to which Xhosa ideophones exhibit the so-called extra-systematic properties, which cross-linguistically tend to distinguish ideophones from other lexical classes. The analysis demonstrates that ideophones are relatively extra-systematic in Xhosa, although their extra-systematicity is not unitary. It is the largest in …
Ideophones in Arusa Maasai
The present article is dedicated to the syntax, morphology, and phonetics of ideophones in Arusa Maasai. After examining the compliance of 69 ideophonic lexemes with the typologically driven prototype of an ideophone, the authors conclude that Arusa ideophones may range from canonical to non-canonical even within a single language module. When syntax, morphology, and phonetics are considered jointly, holophrastic and asyntagmatic ideophones are m…
We don’t need another hero!”
The present article shifts the focus and burden of whistleblowing away from an individual to the collective and argues for the necessary incorporation of whistleblowing into an ethical infrastructure in institutions of higher education. The authors argue that institutions of higher learning should be understood as collective agents bestowed with ethical responsibility which obliges them to act in an ethical manner. The fundamental principle guidi…
Argument structure of emotive interjections
The Historical Present qātēl in Biblical Aramaic
This article offers a typologically-driven and corpus-based analysis of the historical present (HP) "active participle" qātēl in Biblical Aramaic. The authors argue that qātēl instantiates the HP category quite neatly and provide three main arguments. First, qātēl complies with the definition of a progredient/propulsive HP that emerges from crosslinguistic literature: while, in its prototypical use, qātēl expresses some type(s) of present, it may…
Doing – Reflecting – Comprehending, Or
The present auto-ethnographic article examines the compliance of an educational experiment implemented at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) with anarchist pedagogy. After describing this experiment, reflecting on it, and evaluating it within anarchist pedagogical theory, the authors conclude the following: overall, the teaching and learning model implemented approximates the anarchist ideals to a considerable extent. However, this compliance…
The Must ( musieć ) Serial Verb Construction in Polish
The present article is dedicated to a bi-verbal construction built around the verb musieć ‘must’ and another finite verb, e.g., musiał poszedł ‘he must have left.’ By testing this construction for the various properties associated with the cross-linguistic prototype of a serial verb construction, the author concludes the following: the construction with musieć ‘must’ complies with the serial-verb-construction prototype to a high extent, thus cons…
Language simplification in endangered languages
The present paper examines a hypothetical correlation between language endangerment and the simplification of nominal and verbal inflections. After contrasting the complexities exhibited by two endangered languages (Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl and Wymysorys) with the complexities of their non-endangered predecessors (Older Nahuatl and Middle High German, respectively), the authors conclude that the endangerment-simplification entanglement cannot be …
The meaning and form of onomatopoeias in Tjwao
The present article analyzes the meaning and form of onomatopoeias in Tjwao, a Khoe-Kwadi (Kalahari Khoe) language. Making use of a prototype approach to categorization, a corpus of 113 onomatopoeic lexemes were tested for their compliance with the semantic, phonetic, and morphological features associated with the prototype of onomatopoeias in scholarly literature. The evidence demonstrates that Tjwao onomatopoeias tend to instantiate the prototy…
Talking to animals in a moribund language
The present article is dedicated to conative animal calls (CACs) in a Kalahari Khoe language, Tjwao. By using a prototype approach to categorization, the authors test the Tjwao CACs for their compliance with the prototype of CACs posited recently in scholarly literature. The authors conclude that Tjwao CACs largely conform to the pragma-semantic, phonetic, and morphological properties associated with CACs across languages. In light of the Tjwao d…
Conative “kisses” in human-to-animal communication
The present article offers the first systematic scholarly analysis of ConKisses, i.e., a sub-class of conative animal calls (i.e., directives addressed to animals) that draw on speech kisses (i.e., sounds that are made with a kiss-like articulatory mechanism). The author examines the pragma-semantics, phonetics, and morphology of ConKisses in 50 languages within a prototype-driven approach to categorization and concludes the following: ConKisses …
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