Table of Contents

1. List of figures; 2. List of tables; 3. Acknowledgements; 4. Introduction: Standardization, language standards and standard languages; 5. I. History; 6. 1. Afrikaans sociohistorical linguistics: Reconstructing language formation; 7. 2. Afrikaner nationalism and the discovery of the vernacular; 8. 3. The Corpus of Cape Dutch Correspondence and the social context of language use in the nineteenth century; 9. II. Variation analysis; 10. 4. On the analysis of variability and uniformity: An introduction to multivariate clustering techniques; 11. 5. The gradualness of morphosyntactic change; 12. 6. Morphological and syntactic variation; 13. 7. The Cape Dutch variety spectrum: Clusters, continua and patterns of language alternation; 14. III. Establishing the norm; 15. 8. Engels, Engels, alles Engels: Language contact, conflict and purism; 16. 9. Social networks and the diffusion of standard Afrikaans; 17. Epilogue: Language standardization and language change; 18. Appendix: The Corpus of Cape Dutch Correspondence; 19. References; 20. Index

Reviews

Deumert has tackled a very difficult subject and done a very good job with it. The book is well written and the analysis is careful and persuasive. This book is well worth the time and effort necessary to read it.
*Marc Pierce, University of Michigan, in Language 82(3), 2006*