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.
In this project we explored possibilities to share resources for closely-related languages (specifically Afrikaans and Dutch), in order to fast-track resource development.
Breed, Adri, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2015. “Aan die en besig in Afrikaanse progressiwiteitskonstruksies: ‘n korpusondersoek (2) [‘Aan die’ and ‘besig’ in Afrikaans progressive
Heeringa, Wilbert, Febe De Wet, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2015. “Afrikaans and Dutch as closely-related languages: A comparison to West Germanic languages and Dutch
Breed, Adri, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2014. “Aan die en besig in Afrikaanse progressiwiteitskonstruksies: die ontstaan en ontwikkeling (1) [‘Aan die’ and ‘besig’ in Afrikaans
Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Ben. Verhoeven. 2014. “A taxonomy for Afrikaans and Dutch compounds.” Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Walter Daelemans, Menno M. Van Zaanen, and Ben. Verhoeven. 2014. Resources for compound processing. North-West University: Potchefstroom, South Africa; University of
van Zaanen, Menno M., Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, Suzanna Aussems, Chris Emmery, and Roald Eiselen. 2014. “The development of Dutch and Afrikaans language resources for
Verhoeven, Ben, Menno M Van Zaanen, Walter Daelemans, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2014. “Automatic compound processing: compound splitting and semantic analysis for Afrikaans and
Verhoeven, Ben, Gerhard B Van Huyssteen, Menno M. Van Zaanen, and Walter Daelemans. 2014. Annotation guidelines for compound analysis. In CLiPS Technical Report Series (CTRS).
Verhoeven, Ben, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2013. “More than only noun-noun compounds: towards an annotation acheme for the semantic modelling of other noun compound
Verhoeven, Ben, Walter Daelemans, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2012. “Classification of noun-noun compound semantics in Dutch and Afrikaans.” Pretoria, South Africa, 2012.
Heeringa, Wilbert, Febe De Wet, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2011. “Afrikaans and Dutch as closely related languages: a comparison to West Germanic languages and
Pilon, Suléne, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2011. “Technology recycling for closely related languages: Dutch and Afrikaans.” 21th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
Pilon, Suléne, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, and Liesbeth Augustinus. 2010. “Converting Afrikaans to Dutch for technology recycling.” Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Pattern
Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Suléne Pilon. 2010. “Some thoughts on a Dutch-to-Afrikaans convertor.” Guest lecture, University of Antwerp, ANTWERP, Belgium.
Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Suléne Pilon. 2010. “A Dutch-to-Afrikaans convertor.” 20th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 2010, Utrecht University, UTRECHT, The
Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Suléne Pilon. 2009. “Rule-based conversion of closely-related languages: A Dutch-to-Afrikaans convertor.” Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Pattern Recognition