A note on the periphrastic past in Afrikaans
The periphrastic past tense of Afrikaans, involving the auxiliary het, is compared with its ancestor construction in Dutch. I argue that the situation in Afrikaans provides support for the analysis of Germanic verb clusters in Zwart (2017), where periphrastic verb forms occupy cells in morphological...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/276 |