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Direct linkvan 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
