The Linguistics Department at the University of Michigan hosted the 5th Afrikaans Grammar Workshop (AGW5) in a virtual format on September 5-6. AGW is the premier international conference on the linguistics of Afrikaans. It was founded 12 years ago by U-M faculty member Andries Coetzee (Judith T. Irvine Collegiate Professor of Linguistics) together with Dutch, Belgian and South African linguists. This year's conference featured presentations from scholars in the US, Europe and South Africa on topics including language acquisition, generative syntax, morphology, historical linguistics, and more. The conference featured two keynote presentations, including one by U-M alum Paul Roberge on the extent to which Afrikaans can be considered a creole language. Linguistics PhD student Martin Mössmer, postdoctoral fellow Bradley Mackay, and Professor Coetzee also presented a paper on their joint research at the conference.
- “Dissecting a linguistic chimera” (Keynote Presentation)
Author: Paul Roberge (U-M PhD, 1980)“
- Afrikaans word recognition: Do listeners adjust to the socio-ethnic identity of the speaker?”
Authors: Andries Coetzee (current U-M faculty member), Bradley Mackay (current U-M postdoc), Martin Mössmer (current U-M graduate student)
