Grammaticalization in Emirati Arabic

This paper is concerned with the process of language change whereby lexical items and constructions, in specific contexts, come to serve new grammatical functions. Emirati Arabic provides us with a wide range of grammaticalization phenomena. The aim of this paper is twofold: to shed light on the bas...

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Main Author: Jarad, Najib Ismail (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Arabica
Year: 2017, Volume: 64, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 742-760
Further subjects:B Emirati Arabic Arabe émirati grammaticalization grammaticalisation volition verb verbe de volonté genitive exponent génitif reflexive pronoun pronom réfléchi subordinate conjunction conjonction subordonnée
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Summary:This paper is concerned with the process of language change whereby lexical items and constructions, in specific contexts, come to serve new grammatical functions. Emirati Arabic provides us with a wide range of grammaticalization phenomena. The aim of this paper is twofold: to shed light on the basic concepts relating to grammaticalization phenomena and to examine the grammaticalization of a number of constructions in Emirati Arabic, investigating their formation and the changes in their functions. The development of these grammatical constructions follows a grammaticalization pathway identified for a wide range of linguistic items cross-linguistically.
ISSN:1570-0585
Contains:In: Arabica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341473