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

Year: 2014

Type: article

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.

Source: RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne

DOI: 10.13135/2384-8987/632

Author: Gasparini, Fabio

Institution: University of Naples - L'Orientale

Language: English

Topic: Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1484033485

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