کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5124511 | 1488139 | 2017 | 22 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- A1 -Demonstrative determiner nÉ evolved through identifying copula nÉ, identifying pronouns nÊ and na into focus particle nι.
- A2 -Identifying pronoun na is also reanalysed as clause final affirmative na.
- B1 -Demonstrative pronoun lÉ evolved into scalar demonstrative lÉ and then intensifier lÉ.
- B2 -Scalar demonstrative lÉ evolved into identifying copula lÉ and then partly into emphatic pronouns ÊlÉ, alÉ and bÉlÉ.
- B3 -Emphatic pronouns ÊlÉ, alÉ and bÉlÉ evolved into demonstratives Êl, al and bÉl, subsequently reanalysed as postnominal focus markers.
For the past half century, the versatile nature of demonstratives across languages has increasingly attracted attention in language typology. The present study contributes to this research agenda by examining the grammaticalisation pathways of two distal demonstratives in the Lobr dialect of Dagaare (Niger-Congo: Gur), namely, nÉ, an adnominal demonstrative, and lÉ, a pronominal demonstrative. The analysis reveals that the adnominal demonstrative nÉ first got reanalysed as an identifying copula verb and, subsequently fused with third person pronouns, Ê and a, to derive identifying pronouns, nÊ and na respectively. Further, the identifying pronouns nÊ and na fused with the attributive copula ι to derive the focus particle nι. The identifying pronoun na has also been reanalysed into an affirmative final particle. On the other hand, the pronominal demonstrative lÉ first developed into a scalar demonstrative determiner and then into an intensifier. Subsequently, the scalar demonstrative determiner evolved into a copula, which fused with third person pronouns Ê, a and bÉ to derive the emphatic counterparts of these pronouns, comprising ÊlÉ, alÉ and bÉlÉ respectively. These are further cliticised and have evolved into adnominal demonstratives and then postnominal focus particles. These grammaticalisation trajectories contribute to a finer-grained and richer account of the diachrony and typology of demonstratives, including the substantivizing role of morpho-phonemic fusion on the development of grammaticalisation chains.
Journal: Language Sciences - Volume 64, November 2017, Pages 130-151