Rooi, C. van (Chevãn)

Chevãn Van Rooi (1997) is a guest Researcher in Linguistics and Language Variation at the Meertens Institute. He completed his BA degree in 2018 (Cum Laude) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. He graduated with a double major in Linguistics and Politics. In 2019, he completed his honours degree (Cum Laude) in Linguistics, under the supervision of Erin Pretorius. His honours research focused on a novel case of Preposition-drop (P-drop) in Kaaps expressions of accompaniment. In July 2022, he completed (Summa Cum Laude) his MA in Linguistics under the supervision of Erin Pretorius and Theresa Biberauer. This research focused on verb-second and verb-third placement in Manenberg Kaaps. Since February 2023, Chevãn is pursuing a joint PhD in Linguistics between UWC and Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Under the supervision of Erin Pretorius, Theresa Biberauer and Marjo van Koppen, his PhD project focuses on the syntax of discourse particles in Kaaps.