Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Subject "periphrastic construction"

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    • Die deelwoord as 'n ánder vorm van die werkwoord 

      Butler, Anneke (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)
      Afrikaans is an inflection-poor language and, as expected, a literature review revealed that little agreement exists on how the participle in Afrikaans should be analysed and described. These differences are reflected in ...

    • Periphrastic progressive constructions in Dutch and Afrikaans: a contrastive analysis 

      Breed, Adri; Brisard, Frank; Verhoeven, Ben (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
      Given the common ancestry of Dutch and Afrikaans, it is not surprising that they use similar periphrastic constructions to express progressive meaning: aan het (Dutch) and aan die/'t (Afrikaans) lit. 'at the'; bezig met/(om) ...