Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner
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 demonstrativ...
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doaj-97bed3c1b78f48b08190295e3075d19e2021-09-14T07:21:16ZdeuUniversità degli Studi di TorinoRiCognizioni2384-89872014-12-011210.13135/2384-8987/632562Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determinerFabio Gasparini0Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" 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. https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/632AramaicSemiticdefinitenessspecificitygrammaticalization |
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Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner |
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Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner |
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Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner |
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Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner |
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Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives in Neo-Aramaic. Towards the creation of a simple determiner |
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grammaticalization of adnominal demonstratives in neo-aramaic. towards the creation of a simple determiner |
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Università degli Studi di Torino |
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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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Aramaic Semitic definiteness specificity grammaticalization |
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