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Taxonomy of impolite Afrikaans morphological constructions

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MorfAf (Morfologie van Afrikaans): Deel 2 (2020)

MorfAf (Morfologie van Afrikaans) is ‘n reeks oor die struktuur van komplekse Afrikaanse woorde. Deel 1 (2018) begin met ‘n verkenning van basisbegrippe (soos morfeme, affikse, stamme en wortels), terwyl verskeie moeiliker kwessies in deel 2 (2020) in meer besonderhede ondersoek word. Die doel is om nie net ‘n oorsig oor Afrikaanse woordbou te kry…
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Strata in the development of Afrikaans

The grammar and lexicon of Afrikaans can be divided into various diachronic layers (etymological tiers). A diagram and Excel spreadsheet are provided to describe the various strata in the development of Afrikaans.
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Etymology of food names

The etymology of Afrikaans food names is often fascinating. On this page, I collect a few musings on the topic.
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Animal name compounds in Afrikaans

Direct English translations of animal names in other languages often have weird (if not appropriate!) results. This collection focuses specifically on Afrikaans compounds.
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MorfAf (Morfologie van Afrikaans): Deel 1 (2018)

MorfAf (Morfologie van Afrikaans) is ‘n reeks oor die struktuur van komplekse Afrikaanse woorde. Ons skop in deel 1 (2018) af met ‘n verkenning van basisbegrippe (soos morfeme, affikse, stamme en wortels), waarna verskeie woordvormingsprosesse in deel 2 (2020) in meer besonderhede ondersoek word. Die doel is om nie net ‘n oorsig oor Afrikaanse woordbou…
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Taxonomy of Afrikaans part-of-speech categories

This taxonomy represents all part of speech categories and sub-categories in Afrikaans, together with examples for each (sub-)category. The categorisation is based on the morphosyntactic features of a word, and not on semantics. Click on image to view it in more detail. You can then also right-click on image to download it in high resolution.…
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Taxonomy of Afrikaans constructicon-formation processes

This taxonomy represents all word-formation processes and other processes to form constructions in the Afrikaans constructicon.
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Taxonomy of Afrikaans morphemes

This taxonomy represents all morphemes and other elements in Afrikaans word-formation processes.
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Recipe for morpheme analysis

This step-wise process is used for orthography-based, etymology-driven morpheme analysis and annotation in Afrikaans.
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Van Huyssteen 2008c

Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2008. “Bluff your way through cognitive grammar (aka cognitive grammar for dummies).” Special 6 hour tutorial organised by ‘Centrum voor Nederlandse Taal en Spraak’, University of Antwerp, ANTWERP, Belgium. Zip file with presentations RIS files
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