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Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism
Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| author | Dreyer, Louise Ivette |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132140 Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism Dreyer, Louise Ivette Huddlestone, Kate Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of General Linguistics. Afrikaans language -- Grammar -- Syntax Grammar, Comparative and general -- Construction Historical linguistics -- South Africa Afrikaans language -- Grammaticalization UCTD Skeuomorphs (Linguistics) Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Dreyer, L. I. 2025. Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/339f08b4-55ee-4ac9-96cb-7e20d6871de8 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This exploratory study is concerned with describing and motivating the existence of a novel subtype of morphological formative—namely the “skeuomorph”—which is distinct from inflectional, derivational, or clitic-like elements and which operates solely in an autonomous morphological subgrammar with no immediate reference to syntax, the lexicon, or phonology—a potential form of “pure” morphology. The catalyst for this study is found in Gert Booij’s (2010a) book, Construction Morphology, in which he argues that certain obsolete relic morphemes, once trapped in a specific construction, remain purely as “construction markers”, having no other (morphosyntactic) purpose except to form part of a construction. The inherent mismatch between the form and (lack of) function of such formatives poses a problem for morphological theory, which is directly concerned with “systematic covariation in the form and meaning [or function] of words” (Haspelmath & Sims 2010: 2, emphasis added). Moreover, the term “construction marker” is often used in the literature as a conveniently fuzzy cover term for repurposed obsolescent morphology without any precise description of its defining characteristics, behaviour, development, nor of its place within the larger grammatical architecture. In order to address this gap in the literature, the present study focuses on eight constructional idioms in Standard Afrikaans (a language which has undergone severe deflection and consequently is peppered with morphological relics) which contain so- called “construction markers”, namely the modal infinitive construction (te V-e), the dative ten construction (ten N-e), the aan’t progressive construction (aan’t V-e), the indefinite pronoun construction (iets A-s), the temporal van A-s construction, the causative construction (tot V-ens toe), the superlative construction (ten A-ste) construction and the progressive al A-end-e construction. Approached from Booij’s Construction Morphology framework, the diachronic data collected from the corpus investigation indicate that the relic bound morphemes trapped in these isolated constructions—and others—are unlike any other garden-variety morphemes, both in terms of diachronic development and synchronic behaviour, but rather fall into a novel category. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie verkennende studie is gemoeid met die beskrywing en motivering van die bestaan van 'n nuwe subtipe morfologiese formans—naamlik die “skeuomorf”—wat onderskei word van fleksie-, afleidings- of klitiese elemente en wat uitsluitlik in 'n outonome morfologiese subgrammatika funksioneer met geen onmiddellike verwysing na die sintaksis, die leksikon of fonologie nie—'n potensiële vorm van “suiwer” morfologie. Doctoral 2025-05-27T12:14:42Z 2025-05-27T12:14:42Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132140 en Stellenbosch University xiv, 229 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Afrikaans language -- Grammar -- Syntax Grammar, Comparative and general -- Construction Historical linguistics -- South Africa Afrikaans language -- Grammaticalization UCTD Skeuomorphs (Linguistics) Dreyer, Louise Ivette Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism |
| title | Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism |
| title_full | Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism |
| title_fullStr | Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism |
| title_short | Afrikaans construction markers : a case for linguistic skeuomorphism |
| title_sort | afrikaans construction markers a case for linguistic skeuomorphism |
| topic | Afrikaans language -- Grammar -- Syntax Grammar, Comparative and general -- Construction Historical linguistics -- South Africa Afrikaans language -- Grammaticalization UCTD Skeuomorphs (Linguistics) |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132140 |
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