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  • Chapter 4 - The Historical Development of South African English: Semantic Features

  • from I - A Framework for English in South Africa
  • Edited by Raymond Hickey, Universität Duisburg–Essen
  • Book:
    English in Multilingual South Africa
    Published online:
    07 November 2019
    Print publication:
    21 November 2019, pp 52-73

  • Summary

    This chapter analyses the development of over thirty semantic features of South specialisation and re-analysis of words is provided, even where some English words had no endogenous potential to develop in this way. The historical data suggest that the features had propagated considerably by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whereas the contemporary data show that these features are more likely to appear in the spoken register. More generally, this chapter argues that even though speakers of Afrikaans and South African English have not experienced any identity alignment in the traditional sense, they have maintained a kind of racial affinity within the historical South African context, which has facilitated deep-rooted, reciprocal influence. The unmistakable role of Afrikaans as activating agent in the grammaticalisation process of these features is emphasised. The findings show that the features are often more than transfers and loan translations.