Emphasizer now in colloquial South African English

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ID2264818
AuthorsChris Jeffery (corresponding author), Bertus Van Rooy (0000-0002-3301-4914, North-West University)
Year2004
Volume23
Issue2
Pages269-280
Publication date2004-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Englishes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0883-2919.2003.00351.x
OpenAlexW2109134879
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited4

The British ICE corpus (ICE-GB) shows that now normally functions as either time adjunct or conjunct in Standard English, and never as subjunct. The South African ICE corpus (ICE-SA) shows that South African English (SAE) generally conforms to Standard English (StdE) usage, but that a significant minority of instances in colloquial registers show now functioning as subjunct, specifically as emphasizer. These instances conform more or less closely to one or other of two prototypical syntactic patterns, one of which has a clear parallel in Afrikaans and can reasonably be derived directly from Afrikaans. The other, however, is not closely paralleled in Afrikaans, and it appears to be an indigenous SAE development which takes advantage of the potential for emphasis offered by emphasizer now. It appears, therefore, that while it is Afrikaans in origin, emphasizer now has been nativized in SAE

Linguistics · Sociology · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy

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