Adri Breed
List of John Benjamins publications in which Adri Breed is involved.
2025 Chapter 8. (Anti-)causativity in Dutch and Afrikaans: Uncovering subtle language shifts from contact influence Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher and Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.), pp. 249–277 | Chapter
A Sprachbund refers to a region where languages, despite lacking common ancestry, exhibit similarities due to contact influence, as seen with Standard Average European (SAE). Colonialism spread European languages globally, resulting in creole languages and intercontinental varieties. Languages… read more
2024 Revisiting the aspectual BUSY in (South African) English English World-Wide 45:2, pp. 155–195 | Article
This paper investigates the so-called South African English busy progressive (for example, I’m busy working). Linguistic literature on South African English (SAfE) often states that this construction is a typical feature of this variety of English. The use and the frequency of this construction… read more
2019 A corpus-based study of the human impersonal pronoun ( 'n ) mens in Afrikaans: Compared to men and een mens in Dutch Languages in Contrast 19:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
This article compares the grammaticalizing human impersonal pronoun ('n) mens in Afrikaans to fully grammaticalized men and non-grammaticalized een mens in Dutch. It is shown that 'n mens and een mens can still be used lexically, unlike mens and men, and that ('n) mens and een mens are… read more
2018 Human impersonal pronouns in West Germanic: A questionnaire-based comparative study of Afrikaans, Dutch and English Studies in Language 42:4, pp. 798–846 | Article
In this article, we examine and compare the main human impersonal pronouns in Afrikaans, Dutch and English. The second person singular, the third person plural and the ‘man’- and ‘one’-pronouns are studied by means of an acceptability judgment questionnaire and a completion questionnaire. The… read more