The grammatical structure of Sowetan tsotsitaal
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- Hilde Gunnink (UGent)
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- Tsotsitaal is a language variety widely spoken in South Africa. It is recognisable by its distinct lexicon, which is usually combined with the grammar of another language. In this paper I present data of a tsotsitaal variety spoken in Soweto that uses the grammatical structure of Sowetan Zulu, as well as certain grammatical characteristics that are not used in Sowetan Zulu, but are unique to Sowetan tsotsitaal. Like the tsotsitaal lexicon, these grammatical structures have been created by the speakers, who deliberately manipulate the linguistic material available to them to create a new linguistic variety that they can use to distinguish themselves from others.
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- IDENTITY, SOUTH-AFRICAN TOWNSHIPS, STYLE, SLANG
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5791891
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- Gunnink, Hilde. “The Grammatical Structure of Sowetan Tsotsitaal.” SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES, vol. 32, no. 2, 2014, pp. 161–71, doi:10.2989/16073614.2014.992648.
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- Gunnink, H. (2014). The grammatical structure of Sowetan tsotsitaal. SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES, 32(2), 161–171. https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2014.992648
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- Gunnink, Hilde. 2014. “The Grammatical Structure of Sowetan Tsotsitaal.” SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES 32 (2): 161–71. https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2014.992648.
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- Gunnink, Hilde. 2014. “The Grammatical Structure of Sowetan Tsotsitaal.” SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES 32 (2): 161–171. doi:10.2989/16073614.2014.992648.
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- 1.Gunnink H. The grammatical structure of Sowetan tsotsitaal. SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES. 2014;32(2):161–71.
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- [1]H. Gunnink, “The grammatical structure of Sowetan tsotsitaal,” SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 161–171, 2014.
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abstract = {{Tsotsitaal is a language variety widely spoken in South Africa. It is recognisable by its distinct lexicon, which is usually combined with the grammar of another language. In this paper I present data of a tsotsitaal variety spoken in Soweto that uses the grammatical structure of Sowetan Zulu, as well as certain grammatical characteristics that are not used in Sowetan Zulu, but are unique to Sowetan tsotsitaal. Like the tsotsitaal lexicon, these grammatical structures have been created by the speakers, who deliberately manipulate the linguistic material available to them to create a new linguistic variety that they can use to distinguish themselves from others.}},
author = {{Gunnink, Hilde}},
issn = {{1607-3614}},
journal = {{SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES}},
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language = {{eng}},
number = {{2}},
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title = {{The grammatical structure of Sowetan tsotsitaal}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2014.992648}},
volume = {{32}},
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}
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