affirmative working construction cape town dialect involves use unstressed affirmative contexts e g go hall yesterday contrastive presupposition intended speakers appear simply highlighting alient activity present tense parallels although traditionally believed contact feature cape town english sounds rather like relic early modern standard english reinforced natural second language acquisition form occur though possibly different pragmatics child language acquisition sporadic unsystematic examples britain soon weeded grammar question anyone know dialect l1 l2 form english child language early interlanguage etc something similar familiar early modern standard earlier forms affirmative ireland south west england pragmatics different incidentally habitual function associated cape town dialect thanks raj mesthrie dept linguistics university cape town raj beattie uct ac za