North-West University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with North-West University*

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Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings

Edited by Bertus van Rooy & Haidee Kotze

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

[Contact Language Library, 60] 2024. | edited volume

Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] 2023. | edited volume

Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space

Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö

Subjects Communication Studies | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] 2023. | edited volume

Jessner, Ulrike 2026 Multilingual awareness as key factor in multilingual learning and teaching

Keywords: dynamic model of multilingualism | DMM | multilingual awareness | metalinguistic awareness | crosslinguistic awareness | complexity: multilingual development | multilingual learners

Pedagogical Linguistics | Online First Publication, 17 pp. | article

Pretorius, Marilize 2026 ‘I want the text to still be me’: Foregrounding ChatGPT’s impact on L2 voice

Keywords: voice | communication accommodation | generative artificial intelligence | agency | English for academic purposes

English Text Construction | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article | open access

van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2025 Dutch taboo words adrift

Keywords: colonial language | euphemism | impolite language | language contact | lexical semantic change | maledicta | taboo language | tabooness | xphemism

In: Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher & Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] pp. 314–341

Breed, Adri & Daniel Van Olmen 2025 (Anti-)causativity in Dutch and Afrikaans: Uncovering subtle language shifts from contact influence

Keywords: causative | anticausative | language contact | Sprachbund | extra-territorial | closely related language

In: Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher & Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] pp. 249–277

Bogaards, Maarten & Roné Wierenga 2025 Aspectual cognate constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch: A language contact approach to prospective and ingressive aspect

Keywords: viewpoint aspect | language contact | ingressive aspect | prospective aspect | Diasystematic Construction Grammar | selection theory | corpus linguistics | Afrikaans | Dutch

In: Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher & Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 55] pp. 278–313

Yang, Shuangshuang, Jan-Louis Kruger, Marc Orlando & Jennifer Batchelor 2025 Methods for exploring executive functions (EFs) in simultaneous interpreting (SI): A systematic review and proposals for future studies

Keywords: executive functions (EFs) | bilingual advantage | interpreter advantage | interpreting training effect | methodological design | EFs tasks design

Translation and Interpreting Studies 20:2 pp. 244–273 | article

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2025 Structure of simple declarative clauses in South African Sign Language

Keywords: South African Sign Language | declarative clauses | South African Sign Language corpus | information structure | copula constructions | corpus linguistics

Sign Language & Linguistics 28:1 pp. 104–139 | article

Álvarez-Mosquera, Pedro, Ian Bekker & Alejandro Marín-Gutiérrez 2025 Implicit language attitudes among young, white, L1-Afrikaans speakers towards two South African Englishes: The role of gender and family language

Keywords: language attitudes | South Africa | South African English | Implicit Association Test | indirect methods | Afrikaans, gender | family language | in-group bias

English World-Wide 46:2 pp. 127–153 | article

Kornacki, Michał & Jan-Louis Kruger 2025 Dynamic eyetracking

In: Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies, Rojo López, Ana María & Ricardo Muñoz Martín (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 10] pp. 235–255

Kotze, Haidee & Bertus van Rooy 2024 Introduction: The constrained communication framework for studying contact-influenced varieties

Keywords: constrained language | second language | translated language | language contact | usage-based model

In: Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings, van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kotze (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 60] pp. 1–28

Rosenbach, Anette & Johanita Kirsten 2024 Afrikaans influence on genitive variation in South African English?: A comparative diachronic study of Afrikaans and White South African English

Keywords: genitive variation | English genitives/possessives | Afrikaans genitives/possessives | language contact | animacy | register

In: Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings, van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kotze (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 60] pp. 29–57

Redelinghuys, Karien 2024 Language contact and change through translation in Afrikaans and South African English: A diachronic corpus-based study of genitive variation

Keywords: translation-induced language change | language contact | language change | genitive variation | Afrikaans | South African English | corpus-based translation studies

In: Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings, van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kotze (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 60] pp. 58–86

Partridge, Maristi 2024 Investigating the complementiser that in the verb complementation of Black South African English

Keywords: that/Ø-alternation | verb complementation | Black South African English (BSAfE) | second-language English (L2 English) | White South African English (WSAfE) | first-language English (L1 English) | psycholinguistic constraints | sociocognitive constraints | cross-linguistic influence (CLI)

In: Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings, van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kotze (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 60] p. 87

van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kotze 2024 Conclusion: Cumulative insights into constrained communication

Keywords: constrained language | second language | translated language | language contact | usage-based model | communicative risk management

In: Constraints on Language Variation and Change in Complex Multilingual Contact Settings, van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kotze (eds.) [Contact Language Library, 60] pp. 255–286

Law Favo, Melanie Ann 2024 Editors and world Englishes: Exploring (the interaction between) editors’ sociolinguistic profiles and the norm-providing sources they use for editing work

Keywords: world Englishes | editors | norms | codification | endonormativity | Australia | South Africa

English World-Wide 45:1 pp. 61–93 | article

Breed, Adri 2024 Revisiting the aspectual BUSY in (South African) English

Keywords: busy | progressive | South African English | Afrikaans | Dutch | aspect | imperfective

English World-Wide 45:2 pp. 155–195 | article

Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan 2023 Review of The Dynamics of English in Namibia: Perspectives on an Emerging Variety edited by Anne Schröder (2021)

English World-Wide 44:1 pp. 151–156 | book review

Botha, Maricel 2023 Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows: A systems perspective

Keywords: Nollywood | translation | subtitling | interpreting | indigenous African languages | social systems theory | Niklas Luhmann

In: Translation Flows: Exploring Networks of People, Processes and Products, Feinauer, Ilse, Amanda Marais & Marius Swart (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 163] pp. 129–148

Kotze, Haidee, Minna Korhonen, Adam Smith & Bertus van Rooy 2023 Salient differences between Australian oral parliamentary discourse and its official written records: A comparison of ‘close’ and ‘distant’ analysis methods

Keywords: Australian Hansard | close reading | distant reading | editorial practice | informality | conservatism | spoken language

In: Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] pp. 54–88

Labat, Sofie, Haidee Kotze & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi 2023 Processing and prescriptivism as constraints on language variation and change: Relative clauses in British and Australian English parliamentary debates*

Keywords: restrictive relative clause | Australian English | British English | real-time study | language processing | prescriptivism

In: Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] pp. 250–276

Tyrkkö, Jukka & Haidee Kotze 2023 Perspectives on parliamentary discourse: From corpus linguistics to cultural analytics

In: Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] pp. 1–16

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2023 Advances in sign language Corpus Linguistics

In: Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics, Wehrmeyer, Ella (ed.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] p.  ff.

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2023 Sign language corpus linguistics: Taking stock of an emerging discipline

Keywords: corpus development | corpus annotation | sign language linguistic corpora | corpus histiography | open-access corpora | web-based corpus research | semi-automatic annotation | avatar development

In: Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics, Wehrmeyer, Ella (ed.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] pp. 1–27

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2023 Verb classes in South African Sign Language: A corpus-driven approach

Keywords: South African Sign Language | verb classes | plain verbs | agreement verbs | verbs of motion | depicting verbs | corpus-driven research

In: Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics, Wehrmeyer, Ella (ed.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] pp. 155–191

Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö 2023 Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space

In: Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze & Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] p.  ff.

Kruger, Jan-Louis & Sixin Liao 2022 Establishing a theoretical framework for AVT research: The importance of cognitive models

Keywords: audiovisual translation (AVT) | cognitive models | multimodal integrated language framework (MILF) | subtitles

Translation Spaces 11:1 pp. 12–37 | article

Aronin, Larissa & Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy 2022 Emerging trends in multilingual learning and teaching: Beyond edges and borders

AILA Review 35:1 pp. 152–168 | article commentary

Ravyse, Natasha & Adriana J. M. van Zyl 2022 Between two fires: Linguistic justice vs language policy at a South African higher education institution

Keywords: linguistic justice | language policy | South African public higher education | identity | constitutive dimension | non-identity | instrumental dimension

Language Problems and Language Planning 46:3 pp. 318–348 | article

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2022 Psycholinguistic errors in signed simultaneous interpreting

Keywords: speech errors | signed-language interpreting | corpus-driven interpreting studies | slips | repairs

Interpreting 24:2 pp. 192–220 | article

Chen, Sijia & Jan-Louis Kruger 2022 The effectiveness of computer-assisted interpreting: A preliminary study based on English-Chinese consecutive interpreting

Keywords: computer-assisted interpreting | consecutive interpreting | cognitive load | speech recognition | machine translation

Translation and Interpreting Studies 18:3 pp. 399–420 | article

Botha, Yolande & Maryka van Zyl 2021 Register and modification in the noun phrase

Keywords: modifiers | noun phrase | register | effect size

In: Corpus-based approaches to register variation, Seoane, Elena & Douglas Biber (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 103] pp. 179–208

Kotze, Haidee, Berit Janssen, Corina Koolen, Luka van der Plas & Gys-Walt van Egdom 2021 Norms, affect and evaluation in the reception of literary translations in multilingual online reading communities: Deriving cognitive-evaluative templates from big data

Keywords: translation norms | translation reception | affect | digital humanities | computational analysis | big data

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 4:2 pp. 147–186 | article | open access

Van Rooy, Bertus 2021 A Diasystematic Construction Grammar analysis of language change in the Afrikaans and English finite verb complement clause construction

Keywords: Diasystematic Construction Grammar | finite verb complement construction | language change | Afrikaans | English

In: Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30] pp. 109–137

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2020 Shifts in signed media interpreting: A corpus study

Keywords: corpus-driven interpreting studies | signed language interpreting | interpreting strategies | South African Sign Language | simultaneous interpreting

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:3 pp. 270–296 | article

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2020 Additions in simultaneous signed interpreting: A corpus-driven grounded study

Keywords: additions | explicitation | sign language interpreting | corpus-driven interpreting studies | grounded theory | South African Sign Language

Translation and Interpreting Studies 16:3 pp. 434–454 | article

Wehrmeyer, Ella & Sarita Antunes 2020 Different strokes for different folks: Exploring personality in professional translation

Keywords: personality trait theory | Big Five Inventory | translation techniques | text type | literal translation | creativity | translation process

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 3:2 pp. 189–208 | article

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2019 Rethinking handshape: A new notation system for sign language

Keywords: SaNoSysH | sign language notation systems | handshape | phonetics | South African Sign Language | transcription | research tools

Sign Language & Linguistics 22:1 p. 83 | article

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2019 A corpus for signed language interpreting research

Keywords: signed language interpreting | corpus-driven interpreting studies | transcription | annotation | sign language corpora

Interpreting 21:1 pp. 62–90 | article

Fuchs, Robert, Bertus van Rooy & Ulrike Gut 2019 Corpus-based research on English in Africa: A practical introduction

In: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra, Ulrike Gut & Bassey E. Antia (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] pp. 37–70

van Rooy, Bertus 2019 Evaluating explanations for past-time reference with unmarked verb forms in African Englishes

In: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra, Ulrike Gut & Bassey E. Antia (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] pp. 185–204

Iyabo, Adeyemi 2019 A corpus-based analysis of conjunctive cohesion in English essays of Nigerian university learners

In: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra, Ulrike Gut & Bassey E. Antia (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] pp. 331–354

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2019 Mariachiara Russo, Claudio Bendazzoli and Bart Defrancq (Eds.). Making way in corpus-based interpreting studies

Interpreting 21:1 pp. 151–159 | book review

van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kruger 2018 The innovative progressive aspect of Black South African English: The role of language proficiency and normative processes

Keywords: Black South African English | conventionalisation | editing | feedback | innovation | normative processes, | progressive

In: Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz & Samantha Laporte (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 98] pp. 75–98

Kruger, Haidee & Gert De Sutter 2018 Alternations in contact and non-contact varieties: Reconceptualising that-omission in translated and non-translated English using the MuPDAR approach

Keywords: complementiser omission | explicitation | Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis (MuPDAR) | language contact

Translation, Cognition & Behavior 1:2 pp. 251–290 | article

Van Olmen, Daniël, Adri Breed & Ben Verhoeven 2018 A corpus-based study of the human impersonal pronoun ('n) mens in Afrikaans: Compared to men and een mens in Dutch

Keywords: grammaticalization | impersonal | pronoun | Afrikaans/Dutch

Languages in Contrast 19:1 p. 79 | article

Van Olmen, Daniël & Adri Breed 2019 Human impersonal pronouns in West Germanic: A questionnaire-based comparative study of Afrikaans, Dutch and English

Keywords: acceptability | Afrikaans | completion | Dutch | English | impersonal pronoun | questionnaire | semantic map

Studies in Language 42:4 pp. 798–846 | article

van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kruger 2018 Hybridity, globalisation and models of Englishes: English in South African multilingual digital repertoires

Keywords: computer-mediated communication | South Africa | globalisation | multilingual repertoires

In: Modeling World Englishes: Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties, Deshors, Sandra C. (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G61] p. 77

Kruger, Haidee & Bertus van Rooy 2018 Register variation in written contact varieties of English: A multidimensional analysis

Keywords: multidimensional analysis | register | ESL varieties | translation | contact varieties | formality | involvement

English World-Wide 39:2 pp. 214–242 | article

Kruger, Haidee & Bertus van Rooy 2016 Constrained language: A multidimensional analysis of translated English and a non-native indigenised variety of English

Keywords: constrained language | British English | bilingualism | multidimensional analysis | translation universals | translation | contact varieties | East African English | Afrikaans | South Africa

English World-Wide 37:1 pp. 26–57 | article

van Rooy, Bertus & Haidee Kruger 2016 The innovative progressive aspect of Black South African English: The role of language proficiency and normative processes

Keywords: editing | normative processes | Black South African English | progressive | conventionalisation | innovation | feedback

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2:2 pp. 205–228 | article

Wehrmeyer, Ella 2015 Comprehension of television news signed language interpreters: A South African perspective

Keywords: expectancy norms | Deaf Studies | reception-oriented evaluation | signed language interpreting | South African Sign Language

Interpreting 17:2 pp. 195–225 | article

Redelinghuys, Karien & Haidee Kruger 2015 Using the features of translated language to investigate translation expertise: A corpus-based study

Keywords: translation expertise | corpus-based translation studies | simplification | features of translated language | explicitation | normalisation

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:3 pp. 293–325 | article

Van Olmen, Daniël 2013 Review of Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther & Günter Radden (2011)

Functions of Language 20:1 pp. 125–133 | book review

Kruger, Haidee 2013 A corpus-based study of the mediation effect in translated and edited language

Keywords: corpus-based approach | universals of translated language | mediation | edited language | cognitive approaches

Target 24:2 pp. 355–388 | article

Rossouw, Ronel & Bertus van Rooy 2012 Diachronic changes in modality in South African English

Keywords: South African English (SAfE) | register variation | modals | historical linguistics | corpus linguistics

English World-Wide 33:1 pp. 1–26 | article

Bekker, Ian 2012 South African English as a late 19th-century extraterritorial variety

Keywords: Johannesburg | South African English | koinéization | dialect contact | new-dialect formation | extraterritorial Englishes | 19th-century English | START-Backing | BATH vowel

English World-Wide 33:2 pp. 127–146 | article

Plooy, Heilna du 2011 Words, like shells, are signs as well as things

In: Semblance and Signification, Michelucci, Pascal, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 10] pp. 327–342

Terblanche, Etienne 2010 Iconicity and naming in E. E. Cummings’s poetry

In: Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] pp. 179–191

Plooy, Heilna du 2010 Taking a line for a walk: Poetic contour drawings and contoured poems

In: Signergy, Conradie, C. Jac, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer & Christina Ljungberg (eds.) [Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] pp. 157–178

van Rooy, Bertus 2009 The shared core of the perfect across Englishes: A corpus-based analysis

In: World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas & Lucia Siebers (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G40] pp. 309–330

Kruger, Jan-Louis 2008 Subtitler training as part of a general training programme in the language professions

In: The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation, Díaz-Cintas, Jorge (ed.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 77] pp. 71–87

van Rooy, Bertus 2008 A multidimensional analysis of student writing in Black South African English

Keywords: New variety of English | Black South African English | Outer Circle | indigenisation | corpus linguistics | multidimensional model | student academic writing

English World-Wide 29:3 pp. 268–305 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.