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Publication details [#30773]

Roberge, Paul T. 2002. The Modal Elements mos and maskie in Cape Dutch. Language Sciences 24 (3-4) : 397–408.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adverbial | language change | language contact | modal particle

Language as a subject

Dutch, Cape

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that, as the history of the two Cape Dutch modal adverbs 'mos' and 'maskie' illustrates, intensive language contact may produce features that cannot be adequately explained in terms of a binary opposition between endogeny and exogeny.