Nubi, Genetic Linguistics, and Language Classification  

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Owens, Jonathan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 33 no. 1 (1991), page 1-30.
Fulltext: 30028012.pdf (2.61MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ALI/33 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Creole languages pose a special problem to genetic linguistics. One viewpoint, represented inter alia by Bickerton and by Thomason and Kaufman (albeit in different ways), emphasizes the uniqueness of creoles. A second stresses the historical links of creoles either to substrate languages (Holm 1988) or the lexifier source (Hall 1958). In this paper I compare East African Nubi, an Arabic-based creole, to Sudanic Arabic, and to two potential substrate languages, Bari and Mamvu, and conclude that Sudanic Arabic is the most significant source. It is further suggested that one can speak of Nubi being genetically related to Arabic, and, by implication, that genetic relationship is generally one aspect of a creole's characterization.

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