An Outline of Romanian Pidgin Arabic

Avram, Andrei A.

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“…However, due to crew leaves, rotations, and replacements within the Romanian speech community, newcomers pick up the pidgin from the formers (i.e., approximations of approximations). This pidgin was disrupted and became extinct after the Gulf war in 1990, as Romanian speakers withdrew from the area (Avram, 2010(Avram, , 2020. Tosco and Manfredi (2013) propose that the linguistic features of this contact variety make it a pre-pidgin contact variety.…”

Section: Romanian Pidgin Arabicmentioning

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Tense/Aspect Marking in Arabic-Based Pidgins

Alshammari

2021

Sustainable Multilingualism

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Summary The earliest stages of pidgin formation show a preference for analytic and morphologically reduced grammatical constructions relative to their lexifier or substrate languages, where the apparent morphological marking, if found, seems to be fossilized. Structural relations, therefore, are mostly expressed externally. Tense/aspect categories are marked through temporal adverbials or inferred from the context. Creole languages, however, are said to develop such categories through grammaticalization. This study examines tense/aspect marking in five Arabic-based pidgins: Juba Arabic, Turku Pidgin, Pidgin Madame, Romanian Pidgin Arabic, and Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Using Siegel’s (2008) scale of morphological simplicity, from lexicality to grammaticality, this study concludes that tense/aspect marking is expressed lexically through temporal adverbials or inferred from the context in the earliest stages of Arabic-based pidgins, which only later—in stabilized pidgins—develops into grammaticalized markers when certain criteria are met.

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Section: Romanian Pidgin Arabicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall, the status of tense/aspect marking in Arabic-based pidgin has not been fully evaluated. Only some scattered comments are found in some studies, in addition to Versteegh's (2020) Avram, 2011;Manfredi & Petrollino, 2013;Tosco, 1995 on JA and TP;from Bizri, 2009Avram, 2010Avram, , 2011…”

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Tense/Aspect Marking in Arabic-Based Pidgins

Alshammari

2021

Sustainable Multilingualism

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“…Similarly, in Arabic, pidgin does not show inflections that indicate any grammatical aspect. For example, the verb in Arabic is used in its 'unmarked' form with no inflections to specify the usual verbal attributes, such as tense, aspect, and agreement in number, gender, and person (Bakir, 2010). Reduction of pronominal clitics is another morpho-syntactic feature of Arabic pidgin.…”

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Linguistic Analysis of Saudi Pidginized Arabic as Produced by Asian Foreign Expatriates

Al-Zubeiry

2014

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This study aims at describing the system of SPA (Saudi pidginized Arabic) as produced by AFEs (Asian foreign expatriates) working in Saudi Arabia with specific reference to universal characteristics of reduction and simplification in the system of morpho-syntactic structure of Saudi Arabic. The study is based on data collected through a semistructured interview technique probing into the features of SPA system. Thirty informants were randomly selected from among expatriates working in Saudi Arabia and belonging to different linguistic backgrounds-Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Tagalog, Indonesian, and Malayalam-as representatives of AFEs. The study showed that the AFEs tend to use simplified and reduced system of SA in order to communicate with its native speakers. This was reflected in producing variations of sentence word order that are not compatible with the sentence word order of SA, reduced inflectional verb forms and simplified noun phrase lacking agreement within its structure. The study concluded with the following implications: 1) SPA could be considered as an emerging contact variety among Asian expatriates in Saudi Arabic; 2) it has universal characteristics of reduction and simplification as shown in its structural system; 3) substrate languages play an essential role in the formation of the SPA.

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“…Because of such limitations in scope of use, pidgins are highly simplified and reduced versions of their major input language, usually the socially dominant one. Pidgins that emerged in domestic settings include Indian Butler English (Hosali 1992), Pidgin Madam and Gulf Pidgin Arabic (Bakir 2010;Avram 2010). Those that arose under military invasion or occupation include Japanese Pidgin English and Vietnamese Pidgin French, both now extinct.…”

Section: Pidgin Formationmentioning

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Social factors in contact languages

Winford¹

2013

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An Outline of Romanian Pidgin Arabic

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Tense/Aspect Marking in Arabic-Based Pidgins

Tense/Aspect Marking in Arabic-Based Pidgins

Linguistic Analysis of Saudi Pidginized Arabic as Produced by Asian Foreign Expatriates

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