Language Standardization and Language Change -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The study of language standardization -- Linguistic focusing: From variation continua to language standards -- Codification and functional diversification: From language standards to standard languages -- Afrikaans historical sociolinguistics -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- History -- Afrikaans sociohistorical linguistics -- Historical corpora and their interpretation -- Language contact and language change at the Cape: Sociohistorical and linguistic evidence -- Mechanisms and outcomes of language change -- The insights of the acrolect -- Summary: Setting the stage -- Notes -- Afrikaner nationalism and the discovery of the vernacular -- The rise of dialect writing -- Afrikaner nationalism and early vernacular standardization -- Folk taxonomies and language attitudes -- A diglossic community? -- The linguistic marketplace and its entrepreneurs -- Summary: The language question at the Cape -- Notes -- The Corpus of Cape Dutch Correspondence and the social context of language use in the nineteenth century -- The Cape Dutch speech community: Core and periphery -- Literacy and writing practices -- The Corpus of Cape Dutch Correspondence -- Mapping the social universe: Age, gender, ethnicity and class -- Age -- Gender -- Ethnicity -- Social class -- Summary: An acrolectal and mesolectal corpus -- Notes -- Variation analysis -- On the analysis of variability and uniformity -- Statistics and variation studies: More than a numbers game1 -- Numerical taxonomy -- Hierarchical cluster analysis5 -- Example (Labov 1969) -- Multidimensional scaling -- Example (Labov 1969) -- Principal components analysis (PCA)12 -- Example (Labov 1969).

Focusing, diffusion and fixity: A statistical perspective -- Notes -- The gradualness of morphosyntactic change -- Variation analysis: Some caveats -- The verbal system -- Revisiting Conradie (1979) -- The apocope of [t] - An example of morphophonemic variation -- Apocope of -e(n) -- Tense marking -- Past tense variation -- Tense and aspect adverbials -- Nominal gender agreement -- The attributive adjective inflection -- Summary: Morphosyntactic standardization as a process of rule extension -- Notes -- Morpholexical and syntactic variation -- Personal pronouns -- First person singular subject pronoun (ek) -- Third person singular subject/object pronouns -- First person plural subject pronoun (ons) -- Third person plural subject/object pronouns (hulle) -- Attributive possessive pronouns -- Summary of pronoun use in the corpus -- The relativizer -- The demonstrative pronouns hierdie and daardie -- The negation -- The infinitive clause -- Objective vir -- The periphrastic possessive -- Summary: Comparing distribution patterns -- Notes -- The Cape Dutch variety spectrum -- Identifying lects in the data -- Morphosyntactic variation -- Morpholexical variation -- Summary of results of the multivariate analysis -- Examining the social dimensions -- Linguistic patterns in the dialect writing tradition -- Standardization and diglossia revisited -- Afrikaans-Dutch code-mixing/switching -- Summary -- Notes -- Establishing the norm -- Engels, Engels, alles Engels -- British colonial rule: 1806-1910 -- English-Dutch/Afrikaans code-mixing/switching -- Anglicisms -- Language conflict and language purism: Moenie jou languages mix nie -- Notes -- Social networks and the diffusion of standard Afrikaans -- Networks, modernization and nationalism -- Reconstructing historical social networks -- Ties of coalition and cooperation: The Afrikaner nationalists.

The rise of Afrikaans: Daar buite in die bloue lug4 -- Summary -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Hypothesis I: An argument for slow and gradual change -- Hypothesis II: Against diglossia -- Hypothesis III: Shaping the linguistic market -- Hypothesis IV: The role of the `middle classes' and the standard as a social symbol -- Hypothesis V: Language standards as `focused' clusters of idiolects -- Note -- Appendix -- References -- Manuscript sources -- Official publications -- Index -- The series IMPACT: STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY.