Adri Breed

Prof
Adri
Breed
Afrikaans linguistics
Associate Professor
Biography
Prof Adri Breed

Adri Breed is a NRF-rated associate professor in Afrikaans descriptive linguistics at the North-West University's Potchefstroom Campus. She specializes in syntax and semantics, with a particular focus on the grammaticalisation of tense and aspect constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch. She completed five degrees at the NWU, namely a degree in Business Communication (B.Bk. – 2005), a degree in Theology with languages (B.Th. Languages – 2005), an Honours degree in Afrikaans Linguistics (B.A. Hons. – 2007), a Master's degree Afrikaans Literature (M.A. – 2007) and her PhD in Afrikaans Linguistics in 2012. During the course of her doctoral studies, she spent roughly ten months at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. 

 

Physical Address

Room 243

Building E9, School of Languages

Potchefstroom Campus

Telephone Number
018 299 1563
E-mail
adri.breed@nwu.ac.za
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List of publications:

  1. 2009             Breed, C. A. 2009. Review article: Christa Konig, Case in Africa. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Word Structure, 2(1):121-135. [ERIH, ESCI]
  2. 2009             Breed, C.A. & Greyling, S.F. 2009. 'n Ondersoek na 'n werkswyse: Die herskryf van 'n Afrikaanse roman 'n draaiboek. Literator, 31(2). [DHET, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
  3. 2013             Breed, C.A. 2013. Die hedetyd is iets van die verlede: kommentaar op die "hedetydskryftradisie" in die Afrikaanse skryfkuns. Literator: Hans du Plessis-Festschrift, 34(2). [DHET, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
  4. 2014             Breed, C.A. & Van Huyssteen, G.B. 2014. Aan die en besig in Afrikaanse progressiwiteitskonstruksies: die ontstaan en ontwikkeling (1). Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 54(4):1-18 [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
  5. 2015             Breed, C.A. & Brisard, F. 2015. Postulêre werkwoorde as progressiewe merkers in Afrikaans en Nederlands. Internationale Neerlandistiek, 53(1):3-28. [VABB-SHW]
  6. 2015             Breed, C.A. & Van Huyssteen, G.B. 2015. Aan die en besig in Afrikaanse progressiwiteitskonstruksies: ’n korpusondersoek (2). Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 55(2):1-18. [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
  7. 2015             Van Olmen, D. & Breed, C.A. 2015. Afrikaans as Standaard Gemiddeld Europees. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 33(2): 227-246 [DHET, ISI, SCOPUS]
  8. 2016             Breed, C.A & Van Aardt, C.A. 2016. Postulêre werkwoorde in Griekwa-Afrikaans – 'n ondersoek vanuit 'n grammatikaliseringsperspek. Spil, 48:1-24. [DHET]
  9. 2016             Breed, C.A. 2016. Aspek in Afrikaans: 'n hedendaagse beskrywing. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 56(1):1-19 [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
  10. 2016             Breed, C.A., Carstens, W.A.M. & Olivier, J.A.C. Die DBAT : 'n Onbekende digitale taalkundemuseum. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 56 (2-1) 391-409, Jun.
  11. 2017             Breed, C.A. 2017. The subjective use of postural verb in Afrikaans (I): evolution from progressive to modal. SPiLPlus, 52.  [DHET]
  12. 2017             Breed, C.A. 2017. The subjective use of postural verbs in  Afrikaans (II): a corpus analysis of CPV en in Zefrikaans. SPiLPlus, 52. [DHET]
  13. 2017             Breed, C.A., Brisard, F. & Verhoeven, B. 2017. Periphrastic progressive constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch: A contrastive analysis.  Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 29(4).[ISI, SCOPUS]
  14. 2017             Brink, N. & Breed, C.A. 2017. H Hoe jong Afrikaanssprekende kinders betekenis aan hul vroeë taalgebruik verbind. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 57(4):1012-1036. [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
  15. 2017             Breed, A. & Van Olmen, D. Menslike onpersoonlike voornaamwoorde in Nederlands vanuit 'n dubbelvraelysaanpak – 'n vergelyking met Afrikaans. Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, 2017(2). [DHET]
  16. 2018             Van Olmen, D. & Breed, C.A. 2018. Human impersonal pronouns in Afrikaans: A double questionnaire-based study. Language Sciences, 69:1-29, September. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2018.05.002 [ISI, Norwegian, Scopus]
  17. 2018             Van Olmen, D., Breed, A. & Verhoeven, B. 2018. A corpus-based study of the human impersonal pronoun (‘n) mens in Afrikaans: Compared to men and een mens in Dutch. Languages in Contrast, E-print before publication 5 June 2018 https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.17004.van. [Scopus]
  18. 2018             Van Olmen, D. & Breed, A. Human impersonal pronouns in West Germanic: A questionnaire-based comparative study of Afrikaans, Dutch and English. Studies in Language, In press. [Scopus]