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Peer reviewedMesthrie, Rajend – Language Sciences, 2002
Earlier research argues that "busy" in South African English was, contrary to prevailing scholarly intuitions, not attributable to Afrikaans influence, except for a lifting of the semantic restriction that the verb being modified refer to work activities. Tests these conclusions in light of further data and the rise of corpus…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries
