Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner

Autori

  • Fabio Gasparini Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8987/632

Parole chiave:

Aramaic, Semitic, definiteness, specificity, grammaticalization

Abstract

This paper focuses on the grammaticalization of adnominal demonstratives towards simple determiners in Neo-Aramaic, a dialectal cluster belonging to the Semitic family. Scholars still do not agree about the presence of a definite article in NA and in Aramaic dialectology the systems of demonstratives and determiners have not yet received sufficient attention from a comparative point of view. New grammaticalized items seem not to act like traditional determiners since they encode, besides definiteness, a related though not totally overlapping feature: specificity.

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2014-12-30

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Gasparini, F. (2014). Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner. RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista Di Lingue E Letterature Straniere E Culture Moderne, 1(2), 95–107. https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8987/632

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