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    Terminology
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    See the following sections for some terminological and orthographical conventions used on the Afrikaans Taalportaal:

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    [+]Disambiguation of confusables
    Table 1: Disambiguation of confusables
    Term Confused with Usage
    personal name person name Proper noun with a specific individual as referent, such as Gerhard or Gerhard van Huyssteen
    person name personal name (Derived) noun that refers to a kind of person, such as werk·er (also called person noun), or Fidji·aan (also called inhabitant name).
    proper name proper noun

    Only single-word proper names are proper nouns: Peter and Africa are both proper names and proper nouns; but Peter the Great and South Africa, while they are proper names, are not proper nouns.

    proper noun proper name

    Only single-word proper names are proper nouns: Peter and Africa are both proper names and proper nouns; but Peter the Great and South Africa, while they are proper names, are not proper nouns.

    inhabitant name Subcategory of person name
    geographical name place name Proper noun referring to any kind of geographical space or object, such as Suid-Afrika, Pretoria, Rietvleidam, Apiesrivier
    place name geographical name proper noun referring to a place, such as Pretoria
    negation affix negative affix Preference for negation affix, e.g. on- or -loos
    colour name colour term Preference for colour name, e.g. rooi is 'n mooi kleur
    colour adjective colour term Preference for colour adjective, e.g. die rooi rok
    similative suffix E.g. -ig -ish
    linking verb copula Many English grammars call copulas also linking verb. In the Afrikaans section of Taalportaal, as linking verb (Afrikaans "skakelwerkwoord") is a lexical verb such as loop to walk, gaan to go, probeer to try, or laat to let, that is used like an auxiliary verb, and takes a main verb in the infinitive form as its complement, e.g. Ek probeer die werk doen. I try.LINK the work do.INF I try to do the work.
    [+]Variant morphological forms

    Choices between variant morphological forms are based on relative frequencies: the form with the most hits in a Google search is used.

    Table 2
    Preferred term Alternative term(s)
    classic classical
    neoclassical neoclassic
    orthographic orthographical
    historic present/past tense historical present/past tense
    historical varieties historic varieties
    phonetic phonetical
    phonological phonologic
    morphological morphologic
    separable complex verb particle verb
    compound verb compounded verb
    confix combining form
    interfix linker (incorrect: infix)
    on- prefixation (Booij 2002:113) prefixed with on-
    [+]Preferred spelling/styling
    Table 3: Preferred spelling/styling
    Preferred spelling/styling Instead of:
    above-mentioned abovementioned
    analyse (and other words with "s" vs. "z") analyze
    category-neutral; category-determining category neutral; category determining
    as follows as follow
    left side left-side
    oftentimes often times
    part-of-speech; part-of-speech category part of speech; part of speech category
    prenominal; postnominally pre-nominal; post-nominally
    right-hand right hand
    subcategory sub-category
    viewpoint view-point
    word form; word list; word formation word-form; wordlist; word-formation
    word formation process word-formation process
    zero derivation; zero morpheme zero-derivation; zero-morpheme
    extra
    Software-specific: ling.dita 2.4 in oXygen (XML)

    • Don't use "dita" to refer to another page in Taalportaal; also not "Quick info" or "Read more". Instead, use "section", "subsection", "page", "topic", etc.

    [+]Change log

    If you have any question or suggestions about these general guidelines, please contact Gerhard van Huyssteen.

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    CHANGE LOG

    • 2020/03/09: Added "linking verb", plus comments on using "Quick info" and "Read more".
    • 2020/02/25: Added note on avoiding using "dita" as a term.
    • 2019/12/30: Added notes on preference for "historic past tense" vs. "historical varieties"
    • 2019/06/11: Table added with preferred spelling/styling

    References
    • Booij, Geert2002The morphology of DutchOxfordOxford University Press
    About this article
    Author(s): Gerhard B van Huyssteen
    Category: Afrikaans General
    Keywords: confusablespellingstylingtermterminology
    Version: 1.0, May 2020
    Version history:
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    1.0 Gerhard B van Huyssteen May 2020
    This is a beta version.
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