Language contact and change through translation in Afrikaans and South African English
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natural language processingRecord type:
datasetpaper
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Kar
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Joh
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Abstract
Languages are constantly changing, and language contact has been identified as an important factor that
contributes to language change. Even though translation is a form of language contact, it has hardly been considered as a
factor in contact-induced language change. Against this background, this chapter investigates the potential role of
translation in language change in Afrikaans and South African English using a bidirectional comparable and parallel corpus
with synchronic and diachronic components. The investigation focuses on genitive variation – a linguistic feature that has
been shown to be undergoing change in the two languages as a consequence of language contact. The results show that
translation works in tandem with other factors to conventionalise change in terms of genitive preferences.
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