Browsing Research Articles (Afrikaans) by Author "Grebe, Heinrich Philip"

Browsing Research Articles (Afrikaans) by Author "Grebe, Heinrich Philip"

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  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2009-09)
    This article sprung from practical problems experienced during the translation of three chapters of Bordewijk’s short novel Bint. The reasons for translating a part of this text are discussed. This is followed by a ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2006)
    In the standardization of languages ,a single regional and/or social dialect is often presupposed which forms the phonological, morphological, and syntactic base of the new standard language. In the case of Afrikaans it ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2006)
    The literary press received Etienne van Heerden's recent novel In stede van die liefde (Instead of love; In cities of love, 2005) positively. The Afrikaans cultural organisation, the ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging), ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 1988)
    Every human language provides a set of conventions for the mapping of communicative intentions unto utterances. According to J. H. Greenberg these encoding conventions are constrained by human tendencies to think and talk ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2004)
    Hans den Besten argues that the genesis of Afrikaans can only be explained if the linguistic behaviour of the indigenous Khoikhoi is taken into account. He also points out that apart from the Dutch Pidgin of the Khoikhoi, ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 1999-04)
    Based upon historic-geographical considerations Van Rensburg (1984:514; 1989:436-467; 1990:66-67) distinguishes three early varieties of Afrikaans, i.e. Eastern Cape Afrikaans (Oosgrensafrikaans), Cape Afrikaans (Kaapse ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 1999-08)
    Based upon linguistic and geographical considerations the historiography of Afrikaans distinguishes between three early historic varieties. Apart from the two contact varieties, Cape Afrikaans (Kaapse Afrikaans) and Orange ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (LitNet, 2010)
    In recent publications Standard Afrikaans is still often seen as based on the historical variety Oosgrensafrikaans (Eastern Cape Frontier Afrikaans). However, the work of historical linguists such as Den Besten, Deumert ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2009)
    Ana Deumert has convincingly argued that the internal history of Afrikaans had often been judged too simplistically. It is not likely that Standard Afrikaans was based on any single dialect. From the end of the nineteenth ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2004)
    Since 1994 Afrikaans shares its status as official language not only with English but also with nine indigenous languages. However, this democratic multi-lingualism does not seem to function in practice. English seems to ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek, 2008)
    Literary translation has often been compared to the rendering of a copy of an original painting. Although this is an useful methaphor as it suggests that the tranposing of visual form and meaning can be assessed on the ...
  • Grebe, Heinrich Philip (LitNet, 2009-03)
    It is unlikely that Standard Afrikaans has been based on one relatively uniform vernacular. Ana Deumert has convincingly argued that what we recognise as Standard Afrikaans today is a construction to be attributed to ...