Adri Breed's conference contributions

Keynote contributions

2025

• Adri Breed. 2025. Epistemicity, Evidentiality and Mirativity in Afrikaans: lyk, skyn and blyk. Keynote delivered at the 5th International Afrikaans Grammar Workshop (AGW2025). University of Michigan, USA. 5-6 September 2025. 

2023

• Adri Breed. 2025. “Wie sê dis 'n uitroepsin! Oor uitroepsinne in hedendaagse Afrikaans”. Keynote delivered at the 7de Gentse Kollokwium oor Afrikaans. UGent, Belgium. 27-28 October 2022.  

Papers presented at international conferences

2025

• Breed, Adri, DeWit, Astrid & Brisard, Frank. 2025. “A fresh look at the BUSY progressive in Afrikaans, English and Dutch.” Paper presented at the 5th International Afrikaans Grammar Workshop (AGW2025). University of Michigan, USA. 5-6 September 2025. 

• Pilon, Sulene, Gerhard van Huyssteen, Butler, Anneke, Botha, Lande, Breed, Adri, Eiselen, Roald, Partridge, Maristi & Rabe Monique. 2025. “Towards a distributional model of language contact phenotypes in Afrikaans.” Paper presented at the 5th International Afrikaans Grammar Workshop (AGW2025). University of Michigan, USA. 5-6 September 2025. 

• Breed, Adri Lande Botha. 2025. “Turn out constructions in Afrikaans.” Paper presented at 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 26 – 29 August 2025, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France.

2024

• Breed, Adri, Astrid DeWit, & Frank Brisard, 2024. "BUSY in West-Germanic" at Germanic Sandwich 9, Lancaster, UK, April 11-12.

• Breed, Adri, Timothy Colleman, Anneke Butler, Monique Rabé, Suléne Pilon, Lande Botha, Maristi Partridge, Roald Eiselen en Gerhard van Huyssteen. 2024. "Onbepaaldevoornaamwoordnabepalerkontaminasie in Afrikaans en Nederlands" at the 10th International SAVN Conference, Windhoek, Namibia, July 8-10.

• DeWit, Astrid Breed, and Frank Brisard. 2024. "The BUSY progressive in Afrikaans, English, and Dutch" at Cogling Days 2024, Antwerp, Belgium, December 13.

2023

• Breed, Adri , and F. Brisard. 2023. "Busy to be used: Another English progressive construction." Paper presented at ICAME 44, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, May 17-21, 2023.

• Van Huyssteen, G.B., Adri Breed, and S. Pilon. 2023. "Grammar of Impoliteness in Afrikaans." Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, August 29 – September 1, 2023.

• Botha, L., Adri Breed, A. Butler, M. Partridge, S. Pilon, M. Rabé, and G.B. Van Huyssteen. 2023. "False friends in (not so closely) related languages." Paper presented at the Online Workshop on DCxG, June 1-2, 2023.

• Botha, L., Adri Breed, A. Butler, M. Partridge, S. Pilon, M. Rabé, and G.B. Van Huyssteen. 2023. "Post-positions take center stage: What can we learn about Afrikaans post-positions from descriptions in Dutch and English." Paper presented at AGW 2023, North-West University, Muldersdrift, November, 27-28, 2023.

• Breed, Adri , N. Fouche-Karsten, S. Pilon, and R. Wierenga. 2023. "Non-clauses in Afrikaans." Paper presented at Afrikaans Grammar Workshop 2023, AGW 2023, North-West University, Muldersdrift, November 27-28, 2023.

• Breed, Adri. 2023. "Standard Average European: Anticausative prominence in Dutch and Afrikaans." Paper presented at AGW 2023, North-West University, Muldersdrift, November 27-28, 2023.

2022

• Breed, Adri , and D. Van Olmen. 2022. "Onverpersoonlikingstrategieë in Nederlands: die resultate van ‘n visuele vraelys." Paper presented at the 21st Colloquium Neerlandicum: Voortvarend Nederlands, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 22-26.

2021

• Breed, Adri . 2022. "Wie sê dis 'n uitroepsin! Oor uitroepsinne in hedendaagse Afrikaans." Paper presented at the 7th Gentse Kollokwium oor Afrikaans, UGent, Belgium, October 27-28, 2022.

• Breed, Adri , S. Pilon, and G. Van Huyssteen. 2021. "The boundaries of fuzzy boundaries." Paper presented at the 3rd International Afrikaans Grammar Workshop (AGW 2021), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 30 - October 1, 2021.

2019

• Breed, Adri , Jo-Ann Chan, and Daniël Van Olmen. 2019. "Designing a visual questionnaire to stud impersonalization in West Germanic." Paper presented at Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 25, Iowa City, Iowa, May 3-4, 2019. 

2018

• Breed, Adri . 2018. "Postural verbs: Evolution from progressive to modal: Evidence from Afrikaans." Paper presented at the International Conference for Linguistics 20, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, July 1-7, 2018.

• Kotzé, E., and Adri Breed. 2018. "The interface of polarity, multiple negation, and litotes in Afrikaans adjectives - some observations." Paper presented at the International Afrikaans Grammar Workshop (AGW 2018), Ghent, Belgium, October 5-6, 2018.

• Breed, Adri , and D. Van Olmen. 2016. "The passive as an impersonalization strategy in Afrikaans." Paper presented at the International Afrikaans Grammar Workshop (AGW 2018), Ghent, Belgium, October 5-6, 2018. 

2017

• Van Olmen, D., and Adri Breed. 2017. "Third person plural human impersonal pronouns in Dutch, English, and Afrikaans: A double questionnaire-based approach." Paper presented at "Germanic Sandwich," Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany, March 16-18, 2017. [http://www.uni-muenster.de/INP/internationales/tagungen/]

2016

• Breed, Adri , and D. Van Olmen. 2016. "Human impersonal pronouns in Afrikaans: A pilot study of a questionnaire-based approach." Paper presented at "The Afrikaans Grammar Workshop," University of Michigan, the Meertens Instituut, and the Virtuele Instituut vir Afrikaans (ViVA), Johannesburg, South Africa, August 25-26, 2016.

• Van Olmen, D., and Adri Breed. 2016. "Human impersonal pronouns in Afrikaans: A pilot study of a questionnaire-based approach." Paper presented at "Syntax of the World's Languages VII," The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, August 17-19, 2016.

2015

• Van Olmen, D., Adri Breed, and B. Verhoeven. 2015. "The 'man'-pronoun in Afrikaans." Paper presented at "Jena Impersonals in comparative perspective," University of Jena, Jena, Germany, September 9, 2015.

• Van Olmen, D., Adri Breed, and B. Verhoeven. 2015. "Een synchrone en diachrone corpusstudie van ('n) mens als onpersoonlijk voornaamwoord." Paper presented at "Gents Colloquium over het Afrikaans," The University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, October 22-23, 2015.

• Van Olmen, D., and Adri Breed. 2015. "The 'human' impersonal pronoun in Afrikaans." Paper presented at "A Germanic Sandwich 2013. Dutch between English and German," Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK, January 24-25, 2015.

• Breed, Adri . 2015. "The grammaticalisation of the HET-perfect in Afrikaans." Paper presented at "A Germanic Sandwich 2013. Dutch between English and German," Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK, January 24-25, 2015.

2013

• Breed, Adri, and F. Brisard. 2013. "Periphrastic progressive constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch: A comparison." Paper presented at "A Germanic Sandwich 2013. Dutch between English and German," The Department of Linguistics of KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, January 11-12, 2013.

2011

• Breed, Adri. 2011. "Periphrastic progressive constructions in Afrikaans." Paper presented at the monthly seminar of Antwerp University's Centrum voor Grammatika, Cognitie en Typology, Antwerp, Belgium, December 14, 2011.

• Breed, Adri. 2011. "The endless problems with and possibilities of teaching a specialized communication language course in a multilingual context: teaching language to law students in South Africa." Paper presented at "Applied linguistics as a bridge-builder in a globalized world conference," Artesis University College Antwerp and Department of Translators and Interpreters, Antwerp, Belgium, December 10, 2011.

• Breed, Adri, and F. Brisard. 2011. "Grammaticalisering van temporele en aspectuele constructies in het Afrikaans." Paper presented at "Somerskool Afrikaans," University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, September 19-23, 2011. [http://www.flw.ugent.be/node/657]

2010

• Breed, Adri. 2010. "Grammaticalization of tense and aspect in Afrikaans." Paper presented at the monthly Graduate Conferences Linguistics /DOCOP-sessies taalkunde, Departement Linguistiek van Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, January 12, 2010.

2009

• Breed, Adri. 2009. "Creole languages are reflections of prototypes: Case in Afrikaans." Paper presented at "Case in and across languages" conference, SKY (The Linguistic Association of Finland, Helsinki, Finland, August 27-29, 2009. 

Papers presented local (South African) conferences

2022

• Breed, Adri. 2022. "The Virtual Institute for Afrikaans’ activities." Paper presented at the South African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics conference, Potchefstroom, North-West University, July 27-30, 2022.

2017

• Van Olmen, Daniël and Adri Breed. 2017. "Menselijke onpersoonlijke voornaamwoorden in het Afrikaans en het Nederlands." Paper presented at the Die Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek-kongres 2017, Parys, organized by the NWU.

2016

• Breed, Adri. 2016. "Die DBAT: ʼn Ongekende digitale museum." Paper presented at the conference "Die bewaring van Afrikaans se tasbare erfenis," organized by the Erfenisstigting at the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, August 11, 2016.

2015

• Breed, Adri. 2015. "Die het-verledetyd: 'n toekomstige saak." Paper presented at the "LSSA/SAALA/SAALT joint annual conference," organized by the NWU, Potchefstroom, June 23-26, 2015.

• Breed, Adri, and Caro van Aardt. 2015. "Postural verbs in Griekwa-Afrikaans: A Grammaticalisation

investigation." Paper presented at the "3rd Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop," organised by the NWU, Potchefstroom, November 24-27, 2015.

2014

• Breed, Adri, Frank Brisard, and Ben Verhoeven. 2014. "Periphrastic progressive constructions in Afrikaans and Dutch: A comparison." Paper presented at the "LSSA/SAALA/SAALT Joint Annual Conference," organized by WITS, Johannesburg, June 25-27, 2014.

• Breed, Adri. 2014. "Aspek in Afrikaans: 'n alternatiewe beskrywing." Paper presented at the "LSSA/SAALA/SAALT Joint Annual Conference," organized by WITS, Johannesburg, June 25-27, 2014.

2013

• Breed, Adri. 2013. "Hoe deiktiese woorde subjektiewe betekenis uitdruk in sekere subjektiewe konstruksies." Paper presented at the "LSSA/SAALA/SAALT joint annual conference," organized by the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, July 1-4, 2013.

2012

• Breed, Adri. 2012. "Imperfektiewe perifrastiese konstruksies in Afrikaans." Paper presented at the "LSSA/SAALA/SAALT joint annual conference," organized by the UFS, Bloemfontein, June 25-29, 2012.

2011

• Breed, Adri. 2011. "Die meerduidigheid van aspek in Afrikaans - 'n Grammatikaliseringsondersoek." Paper presented at the "LSSA/SAALA/SAALT joint annual conference," organized by Grahamstown University, Grahamstown, June 26-29, 2011.

2009

• Breed, Adri and Henk Louw. 2009. "Prokkireers hoef nie te kan skreif nie: die herontwikkeling van ’n taalvaardigheidskursus vir regsstudente." Paper presented at the "LSSA/SAALA/SAALT joint annual conference," organized by CPUT, Cape Town, September 2009.