SAMWOP 5
The 5th installment of the Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop took place at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein this year from 24 - 26 November 2016.
My paper identified the class of elements in Afrikaans which are capable of functioning as the Axial Parts of the language. It turns out that this class is exactly the class of elements that have traditionally been labelled in both Afrikaans and Dutch as "intransitive" adpositions. In my dissertation, I reanalyse the "intransitive adpositions" of Afrikaans and Dutch as locative nouns, which are syncretic with both languages' Axial Parts, and I argue that they're not underlyingly intransitive at all. The most robust diagnostic for axial parts in Afrikaans is their ability to occur as the morphologically initial component of complex adpositions.
If you're interested in this topic, please download the handout for this talk, which is here.