Demonstratives and the emergence of a definite article in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14860324 |
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| Authors | Stefano Manfredi (0000-0003-3648-5815, CNRS, SeDyL – UMR8202, France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-232 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-9034 • E-ISSN: 1569-9870 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jpcl.32.2.01man |
| OpenAlex | W2775085520 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
In this study I provide a description of the morphosyntax and the functions of demonstratives in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi, two closely related Arabic-based contact languages. The study describes the process of acquisition of demonstrative pronouns and determiners and it explains the formal and functional changes that have taken place in the demonstrative system of Arabic as a consequence of pidginization and subsequent creolization. Broadly speaking, the reduction of the inflection of Arabic demonstratives and the gradual loss of their deictic value corresponds to a change of their grammatical functions along the common grammaticalization path deictic demonstrative > anaphoric demonstrative > definite article . However, Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi clearly differ in terms of both forms and functions of pronominal and adnominal demonstratives. If Juba Arabic demonstratives are characterized by a certain morphological continuity with those of its Arabic lexifier, Ki-Nubi gives evidence of an innovative, and rather complex, system of demonstrative pronouns and determiners. This morphosyntactic divergence is also reflected on a functional ground insofar as the adnominal demonstrative de “this” is mainly used as a tracking device in Juba Arabic, whereas it can mark nominal definiteness in Ki-Nubi. The study eventually proposes a unified diachronic hypothesis that accounts for a greater degree of grammaticalization of nominal determination in Ki-Nubi as a result of its radical creolization
Arabic · Definiteness · Deixis · Demonstrative · Grammaticalization · Inflection · Linguistics · Pronoun · Referent · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Givenness, Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics, and Point of View
Demonstratives
Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase
Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse
Pidgins and Creoles
The morphologization of an Arabic creole
Juba Arabic as a written language
The morphosyntax and prosody of topic and focus in Juba Arabic
The Nubi Language of Kibera
The Development of Morphological Systematicity
Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar
Leveling in the Sudan
Syntax
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