The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the semantic and syntactic characteristics of the discourse marker actually, and then to describe and explain how it is used by mothertongue (MT) Xhosa speakers who have learned English as an additional language. Such a description may provide a useful benchmark for comparison with MT norms. The source of data for the study is a corpus of approximately half a million words of transcribed spontaneous dialogue between Xhosa English speakers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Rhodes/oai:eprints.ru.ac.za:455 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | De Klerk, V.A. |
| Source Sets | Rhodes University SA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00410.x, http://eprints.ru.ac.za/455/ |
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