A Pidgin Verbal System: The Case of Juba Arabic  

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Tosco, MAURO

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 37 no. 4 (1995), page 423-459.
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The paper describes the verbal system of Juba Arabic (JA), an Arabic-based (stabilized) pidgin spoken in southern Sudan JA shows many characteristics of typical creoles, including the expression of different tense/mood/aspect values through preverbal markers, and the division of the verbal Lexicon between stative and nonstative verbs, which are distinguished by verbal markers and the different value of the verbal form when used without markers. As expected, nonstative verbs have punctual meaning when used without markers. It is argued that, both on syntactic and semantic grounds, core and noncore verbal markers must be distinguished in JA. Core markers are the nonpunctual ge and the irrealisbi, which, unlike the case in most creoles, cannot combine with each other. Other peculiarities of JA are the marking of REALIS character, and the lack of a core tense marker. Anteriority of an action is expressed by the habitual actions by either ge or bi, according to their noncore marker kan, while other noncore markers give such values as incho- ative, resultative, etc. The last section compares JA with both Ki-Nubi (KN), an Arabic-based creole spoken in eastern Africa, and Sudanese Colloquial Arabic. While JA and KN share a common lexifier and substrata, as well as the same historical origin in the second half of the nineteenth century, it is argued that JA is mov- ing more and more apart from KN, as a result of the ongoing and ever-growing influence of Sudanese Colloquial Arabic, as well as the ensuing depidginization of JA.

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