Afrikaans linguistics

Nina Brink

BELINDA BANTHAM — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:07:22 +0000

Nina Brink BELINDA BANTHAM Thu, 10/25/2018 - 12:07

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Nina

Brink

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Nina Brink is a lecturer in Afrikaans linguistics at the North-West University's Potchefstroom Campus. She achieved a BA in Communication Studies, and BA Hons and MA in Afrikaans and Dutch (Linguistics) at the North-West University. Her specific research focus is on Afrikaans children's language acquisition and development. This is an underexplored theme in the field of Afrikaans linguistics. Nina works within the framework of functional/usage-based and cognitive linguistics and is also on the research team of a collaborative research project, the Child Language Development Node. The main function of the Child Language Development Node is to promote research on child language development in all South African languages and the digitisation of child language development data.

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Potchefstroom campus, building E9, office 238

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018 299 1486

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Adri Breed

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:15:43 +0000

Adri Breed BELINDA BANTHAM Wed, 10/24/2018 - 17:15

Afrikaans linguistics

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Adri

Breed

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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.

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List of publications:

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]
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]
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]
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]
2015 Breed, C.A. & Brisard, F. 2015. Postulêre werkwoorde as progressiewe merkers in Afrikaans en Nederlands. Internationale Neerlandistiek, 53(1):3-28. [VABB-SHW]
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]
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]
2016 Breed, C.A & Van Aardt, C.A. 2016. Postulêre werkwoorde in Griekwa-Afrikaans – 'n ondersoek vanuit 'n grammatikaliseringsperspek. Spil, 48:1-24. [DHET]
2016 Breed, C.A. 2016. Aspek in Afrikaans: 'n hedendaagse beskrywing. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 56(1):1-19 [DHET, ISI, SciELO SA, SCOPUS]
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.
2017 Breed, C.A. 2017. The subjective use of postural verb in Afrikaans (I): evolution from progressive to modal. SPiLPlus, 52. [DHET]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]

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Room 243

Building E9, School of Languages

Potchefstroom Campus

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018 299 1563

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adri.breed@nwu.ac.za

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Johanita Kirsten

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Afrikaans linguistics

Historical linguistics

Language contact

Language evolution and change

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Senior Lecturer

Johanita

Kirsten

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Johanita Kirsten, senior lecturer in Afrikaans Linguistics at the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University, is interested in recent and ongoing changes in Afrikaans language use. She completed her MA and PhD in Afrikaans and Dutch (Historical Linguistics) at the NWU under supervision of prof. Bertus van Rooy, and received the ABSA Bronze Medal for her MA dissertation. The research topics she has published on include changes in the verbal system of written Afrikaans during initial standardization of Afrikaans in the early 20th century, changes regarding temporal reference in Afrikaans during the course of the 20th and early 21st century, and how this links to theories of language change; another focus of her work is issues of language purity in the historical descriptions of Afrikaans and ideological issues in published linguistic research. She continues to research different recent and ongoing changes in Afrikaans usage, as well as ideological issues in Afrikaans linguistics. She has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate Afrikaans Linguistics modules at the NWU since 2012, and supervises postgraduate studies in Afrikaans Linguistics and General Linguistics.

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Vanderbijlpark Campus, Building 7, 2nd floor, office 208

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+27(0)16 910 3474

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Johanita.Kirsten@nwu.ac.za

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Wannie Carstens

GÉNA THOMPSON — Thu, 22 May 2014 10:33:56 +0000

Wannie Carstens GÉNA THOMPSON Thu, 05/22/2014 - 12:33

Afrikaans linguistics

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Wannie

Carstens

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Prof Wannie Carstens has been Director of the School of Languages at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus since 2001. He is currently also the chairperson of the Afrikaanse Taalraad, chairperson of the Suid Afrikaanse Akademie van Kuns en Kultuur, chairperson of the Nasionale Taalligaam vir Afrikaans and also serves on a variety of boards. He is, amongst others, also a member of the panel of translators for the new Afrikaans Bible translation.

He was one of the founder collaborators of the collection of Afrikaans poetry that is housed in the Poëzie centrum in Gent, Belgium, and is also leader of a project that established a digital library on Afrikaans language sources (DBAT). He is a graded researcher of the National Research Foundation (NNS/NRF) in South Africa and also participates regularly in radio and television programmes on language matters.

Carstens regularly acts as selector of articles in subject magazines and he himself also published in a variety of fields. He already published two independent books (Norme vir Afrikaans, 1989, 1991, 1994, 2002, 2011) as well as Afrikaanse tekslinguistiek, 1997) and is also co-author of a book titled Teksredaksie (with Prof Kris van de Poel of the University of Antwerp; 2010, 2012). An English version of this book has just been published as: Text editing. A handbook for students and practitioners (Antwerp, University Press Antwerp – Kris van de Poel, WAM Carstens & John Linnegar).

He is also co-author of the ninth edition of the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (2002), the leading and directive publication on spelling in Afrikaans. As member of the Taalkommissie (Language Commission) he is also the co-recipient of the CJ Langenhoven Prize for Language Science from the SA Academy of Science and Art, and he also received an ATKV Woordwyser award for his book Norme vir Afrikaans (4th edition 2003). The fifth revised edition of this book was published in May 2011 and is widely prescribed to universities in SA.

Carstens has already published 33 academic articles as well as numerous popular articles. He also acts as moderator for other universities (UNISA, UFS and UP) as well as external examiner of other universities’ dissertations and theses.

Carstens is currently in the process of writing a book on the history of Afrikaans and hopes to publish it by the end of 2013.

From 2007 Carstens has been travelling regularly to Belgium where he acts as guest professor at the University of Antwerp.

He was the study leader/promoter of several Master’s and PhD students.

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Prof Wannie Carstens

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North-West University

Potchefstroom Campus

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018 299 1552

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wannie.carstens@nwu.ac.za

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