Hostname: page-component-cb9f654ff-hqlzj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-08-28T18:47:22.568Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Corpus linguistic work on Black South African English

An overview of the corpus revolution and new directions in Black English syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2013

Bertus van Rooy
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Black South African English (henceforth BSAfE) has received more attention from corpus linguists than any other variety in the country. In the early 2000s, two corpus projects were initiated more or less simultaneously: the corpus of spoken Xhosa-English, compiled by Vivian de Klerk at Rhodes University, and the Tswana Learner English corpus that I compiled. A number of further corpora have also been compiled in the more recent past, many of which are available in the public domain for research purposes.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 10 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Botha, Y. V. 2012. ‘Specification in the English nominal group with reference to student writing.’ Unpublished PhD dissertation, North-West University.Google Scholar
Buthelezi, Q. 1995. ‘South African Black English.’ In Mesthrie, R. (ed.), Language and Social History: Studies in South African Sociolinguistics. Cape Town: David Philip, pp. 242–50.Google Scholar
Crystal, D. 2008. ‘On “can be able to”.’ Online at <http://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-can-be-able-to.html> (Accessed January 19, 2010).+(Accessed+January+19,+2010).>Google Scholar
De Klerk, V. 2006. Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes. London: Continuum.Google Scholar
Gough, D. 1996. ‘Black English in South Africa.’ In de Klerk, V. (ed.), Focus on South Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 53–77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Greenbaum, S. 1988. ‘Proposal for an international computerized corpus of English.’ World Englishes 7, 3–15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Greenbaum, L. & Mbali, C. 2002. ‘An analysis of language problems identified in writing by low-achieving first-year students, with some suggestions for remediation.’ Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 20, 233–44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kahneman, D. 2011. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Google Scholar
Mesthrie, R. 1997. ‘A sociolinguistic study of topicalisation phenomena in South African Black English.’ In Schneider, E. (ed.), Englishes around the World: studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Volume 2. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 119–141.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mesthrie, R. 2006. ‘Anti-deletions in an L2 grammar: a study of Black South African English mesolect.’ English World-Wide 27, 111–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mesthrie, R. 2008. ‘Black South African English: morphology and syntax.’ In Mesthrie, R. (ed.), Varieties of English 4: Africa, South and South East Asia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 488–500.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Minow, V. 2010. Variation in the Grammar of Black South African English. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.Google Scholar
Romaine, S. 2005. ‘Variation.’ In Doughty, C. J. & Long, M. H. (eds), The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell, 409–35.Google Scholar
Schmied, J. 1990. ‘Corpus linguistics and non-native varieties of English.’ World Englishes 9, 255–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Siebers, L. 2012. Morphosyntax in Black South African English: a case study of Xhosa-English. Tübingen: Gunther Narr.Google Scholar
Van Rooy, B. 2006. ‘The extension of the progressive aspect in Black South African English.’ World Englishes 25, 37–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Rooy, B. 2008. ‘An alternative analysis of tense and aspect in Black South African English.’ World Englishes 27, 335–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Rooy, B. 2011. ‘A principled distinction between error and conventionalised innovation in African Englishes.’ In Mukherjee, J. & Hundt, M. (eds), Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a Paradigm Gap. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 191–209.Google Scholar
Van Rooy, B. 2012. ‘Overextending the progressive aspect in the Outer Circle?’ Paper presented at IAWE 2012.Google Scholar