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SUMMARY:Patagonian Afrikaans: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - A
 ndries Coetzee (University of Michigan)
DTSTART:20181102T143000Z
DTEND:20181102T160000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Oliver Mayeux
DESCRIPTION:This presentation explores a 120 year old community of Afrikaa
 ns speakers in Patagonia\, Argentina\, from an historical and a contempora
 ry perspective. Immigrant languages usually survive for only 30-50 years (
 two to three generations). However\, unique historical\, social and geogra
 phic circumstances resulted in Afrikaans surviving in this community for m
 ore than a century (although the language is now moribund in this communit
 y and will likely survive for only another 10-20 years). In this presentat
 ion\, I will review some of the unique features of the variety of Afrikaan
 s spoken in the community\, and show how these features can help date when
  certain changes entered the Afrikaans language. I will also show how some
  features of Patagonian Afrikaans can be used to augment the scant histori
 cal records about the geographic origin in South Africa of the original Af
 rikaans Patagonian settlers. Although I will focus mostly on phonetic feat
 ures of Patagonian Afrikaans\, I will also discuss some morphosyntactic fe
 atures of the language.
LOCATION:Faculty of English\, Room GR-06/07
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