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Stress Placement in Tswana English: The Makings of a Coherent System.
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van Rooy, Bertus – World Englishes, 2002
Investigates stress placement in one variety of Black South African English (BSAE), namely Tswana English. A corpus of 333 polysyllabic words was analyzed in detail to determine the properties of the Tswana English stress system; properties were interpreted by means of optimality theory. Concludes that stress is stored lexically in function words,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Variation
The Extension of the Progressive Aspect in Black South African English
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van Rooy, Bertus – World Englishes, 2006
The extension of the progressive aspect to stative verbs has been identified as a characteristic feature of New Varieties of English across the world, including the English of black South Africans (BSAfE). This paper examines the use of the progressive aspect in BSAfE, by doing a comparative analysis of three corpora of argumentative student…
Descriptors: English, Black Dialects, Language Variation, Foreign Countries