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Codeswitching and ethnicity: grammatical types of codeswitching in the Afrikaans speech community Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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The Greek in Daniel 3: Code-switching, not loanwords KU Leuven
The presence of words deriving from Greek κιθάρα ‘cithara,’ σαμβύκη ‘sambuca,’ ψαλτήριον ‘psaltery,’ and συμφωνία ‘symphonia’ in Daniel 3 has long been taken as damning evidence against the traditional sixth-century B.C.E. date of composition for the book of Daniel. For the past 50 years, however, scholars have increasingly argued that Greek loanwords could have occurred in sixth-century Aramaic. This paper challenges the underlying assumption ...
Ethnicity in linguistic variation: White and coloured identities in Afrikaans-English code-switching Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Afrikaans speech community is characterized by a long-standing rift between Whites and Coloureds, and is for a large part bilingual, with English being increasingly integrated in its stylistic repertoire. Yet, the history of English is different across the White/Coloured divide, as in particular in terms of diffusion and in terms of ideological associations. The question we wish to ask is twofold. First, how far may there be a question of ...