The Development of Articles in Baba Malay  

Oleh:

Thurgood, Elzbieta

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 43 no. 4 (Mar. 2001), page 471-490.
Fulltext: Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 471-490.pdf (1.94MB)

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This paper offers a synchronic analysis of nineteenth-century Baba Malay ini and itu. On the basis of narrative stories published in the Baba Malay newspaper Bintang Timor, the paper argues that Baba Malay used these forms as both definite articles and as demonstratives; when ini and itu precede a noun, they function as demonstratives, but when they follow a noun, they function as definite articles. The evidence for the distinction between demon- stratives and definite articles is found in textual frequencies and discourse functions of ini and itu. Nineteenth-century Baba Malay developed both a proximal and a distal definite article, with the choice between the two definite articles ini and itu reflecting complex discourse considerations.

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