J.P. Legg

List of John Benjamins publications in which J.P. Legg is involved.

Article

Legg, J.P. 1997 Cape English and its Future [1890-91] English World-Wide 18:2, pp. 271–274 | Article

The short article here reprinted from the Cape Illustrated Magazine 1 (1890-91), 94-96, draws our attention to an early stage of language contact in South Africa. Well before the Boer War, and with Pettman's scathing remarks on the English spoken in the country still to come, the author of the… read more