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10) Past tense not always marked How did I grow (grew) up? (Bad Luck) Because when I started writing, I started writing in Xhosa, so I find (found) out that I think it’s the easy way to reach these people. (Shaun) Because back in the days when I started hip hop, what I would hear it’s (was) only 2Pac. (Shaun) He used to be one of those people that went there and watch (watched) us performing. (Bad Luck) 11) New prepositional verb forms It depends first of all with (on) their budget. (Mayja) He’s been to (into) music for like… (Shaun) There was a time we were like interviewing with some other cat, he was interviewing us. (Shaun) I had to buy everything from (out of) my pocket. (Crosby) 12) Use of too and very much as intensifiers Some of the things inspire me very much. (Full Stop) 13) Generalisation of being as a participial Then I started being nice on the mic. (Mayja) I’m talking about maybe me being heartbroken. (El Nino) Some girls grow up being they Britney Spears. (Mayja) 14) New pronoun forms The people in Cape Town know how to speak Afrikaans of which me I don’t know how to speak Afrikaans. (Bad Luck) 15) Question order retained in indirect questions Once I told, why not we do a performance here? (X) 16) Use of subordinators They tent to feel it too, but although they don’t understand it. (Shaun) If those guys they got some money, surely they must pay me, I can’t perform for free but (because/for) these guys are getting a lot of cash from me. (Mayja) 17) Invariant nè in tag questions There are some American songs nè that are commercial that I like. (Full Stop) 18) New quantifier forms They paid me quite some good money. (Crosby) These are the features from de Klerk and Gough that did occur rather frequently in the speech of our interviewees. There are five other features that de Klerk and
Gough distinguish, but that did not occur in our interviews, or at least not frequently enough. Most of the times it concerns pretty specific sentence constructions, such as the use of ‘the most thing’ for ‘the thing I [verb] most’ or ‘X’s first time’ for ‘the first time that X …’ (de Klerk and Gough: 363). Based on our data we can distinguish another grammatical feature that is not really named by these authors. It concerns the mistakes that are made regarding to plural and singular verb forms. There’s (are) chicks involved. (Bad Luck) There was (were) gangstas here too. (Shaun) In hip hop there is (are) rooms as well. (Full Stop) At this point it is important to note that de Klerk and Gough think “it is important not to treat all of these grammatical features monolithically and as all equally representative of a uniform BSAE. There is in this respect a considerable variability with regard to the relative acceptability and utilisation of this features and structures.” (de Klerk and Gough: 364) 3.2. Hip hop slang Introduction We will consider slang as “(…) the non-standard or non-dialectical use of words in a language of a particular social group, (…).” (Wikipedia 16 ) Slang consists partly of neologisms, but most of the time it is standard words that are attributed a new and uncommon meaning. Through “(…) a process of creative and informal use and adaptation, (…)” (Wikipedia) a new language is created, or at least a new usage for certain words from a language. In the end, some kind of ‘secret’ language originates, that is only understood by members of that certain group who use the slang, and that excludes non-members from the conversation. Slang functions as a means to recognise members of the same group, and to be able to differentiate that particular group from the society at large (Wikipedia). Consequently, slang is often linked to certain subcultures, ranging from music genres to drug users. Yet, slang differs from jargons, because the latter are rather related to specific fields or professions (Wikipedia). For example, in conversations concerning their profession, computer specialists use amongst each other very specific words to refer to the actions they perform and the material that they use. This rather technical vocabulary consists of 16 http://en/wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang
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music they make). The concept of id
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the Hoofweg Primary School in Wesba
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