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In:Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017
Edited by Bridget Drinka
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 350] 2020
► pp. 453–472

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The future markers in Palestinian Arabic:

Internal or external motivation for language change?

 | University of Calgary
Published online: 9 July 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.350.21abu
Abstract
The main objective of this research is to explore the factors involved in the variable formation of the future in Palestinian Arabic (PA), and to examine whether it represents a case of ongoing grammatical change. The results show that middle-aged and younger Jaffan and Gazan speakers living in Gaza express future time reference in ways that are absent in the Jaffan dialect still spoken in Jaffa and are also not characteristic of the speech of older Jaffan and Gazan speakers in Gaza. Middle-aged and younger Gazans and Jaffans living in Gaza primarily express ‘future’ within the verbal paradigm by means of a prefix ḥa- attached to the non-past stem. The study concludes that both internal and external factors are involved in the development of the future marker in PA.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background information
    • 2.1The Arabic language
    • 2.2Socio-historical, linguistic, and demographic situation in the Gaza City context
    • 2.3Morphology of the Arabic verb
  • 3.Contact and language change
    • 3.1The code-copying framework and the dialect contact situation in Gaza City
  • 4.Study design
    • 4.1Recruiting participants, interview, data collection
  • 5.Findings: Future time reference within and outside the verbal paradigm in PA
  • 6.Dialect contact and language change in PA
    • 6.1Development of Future markers in PA
      • Stage I: Grammaticalization of the lexical verb ra:ḥ into a grammatical particle
      • Stage II: Copying and conventionalization of ra:ḥ into the Gazan dialect
      • Stage III: Further grammaticalization of the particle ra:ḥ into the prefix ḥa-
    • 6.2Discussion
    • 6.3Extra-linguistic factors
      • 6.3.1Role of the individual speaker
      • 6.3.2Social asymmetry and dominance relations
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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