The formation of Afrikaans

'Nie sommer nie': Sociohistorical and formal comparative considerations in the rise and maintenance of the modern Afrikaans negation system

“…the den Besten papers collected in van der Wouden 2012, and also i.a. Ponelis 1993, Roberge 1994, Deumert 2004, Hugo 2009, van Rensburg 2012, and Steyn 2014 for overview discussion and references; additionally, note the fact that Afrikaans is one of the languages that features in the online Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Languages, APiCS; http://apics-online.info). This debate is relevant here for two reasons.…”

Foreword

“…This was subsequently taken on and elaborated by other non-Dutch-speaking populations at the Cape, with hypothetical creolisation taking place at the start of the 18 th century, the point at which the Khoekhoe moved inland. The Creole that remained at the Cape is then thought to have undergone a measure of decreolisation under the influence of the Cape Dutch spoken by those of European extraction, although further creolisation is also assumed (see den Besten 1989: Roberge 1994, 2002a,b,c and Deumert 2004. Crucially, however, this intermediate position would not be articulateable in anything like the precise terms that it can be today had it not been for the meticulous pioneering work of Hans den Besten.…”

Guest Editor's Preface: Dutch-Based Creoles

“…Afrikaans historical linguistics has brought forth widely different accounts of the emergence of Cape Dutch/Afrikaans (see Roberge 1994 for a comprehensive overview). Eurocentric views postulate that the bulk of the defining features of Cape Dutch/Afrikaans form a continuation of Netherlandic dialects, and that the morphological reduction it displays is owed to the presence of L2 Dutch speakers at the colonial Cape.…”

“…In his account, Roberge (1994) casts doubt on the absolute validity of both Eurocentric and substratalist scenarios. Instead he argues for the possibility that some of the defining features of Cape Dutch/Afrikaans may have resulted from the reinterpretation of features found simultaneously in Dutch dialects and other languages spoken at the Cape without necessarily reflecting any of those features directly.…”