Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change
based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the …

This book focuses on a century of language change, starting early in the 20th century when
Standard Afrikaans first emerged. Different areas of language use are explored, such as …

• Die Nasionale Navorsingstigting (NNS), die Noordwes-Universiteit (NWU) en die Suid-
Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek (SAVN), wat my studie befonds het. Vanweë die …

Einige Jahre liegen nun zwischen der Entscheidung, eine Dissertation zu schreiben und
dem heutigen Tag der Fertigstellung. Ganz am Anfang galt es die Erkenntnis zu erkämpfen …

There are two future time reference auxiliaries in Afrikaans, sal 'will'and gaan 'go'. These
auxiliaries are interchangeable in many contexts. In light of the ongoing grammaticalization …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the history and sociolinguistic setting of Germans
and German in Namibia, which serves as a backdrop for our discussion of two grammatical …

Zentralpame (pbs) ist eine indigene Sprache Mexikos aus der Familie der Otopame-
Sprachen, die sowohl gefährdet als auch wenig beschrieben ist. Letzteres trifft insbesondere …

English and Dutch have their respective go-futures, ie, be going to (BGT) and gaan, as in (1)
and (2). There have been mainly three types of studies on their comparison:(i) an analysis …

It has in recent years been shown that some linguistic items, in particular lexical and
abstracted movement verbs, activate the motor cortex in the human brain while being …