Stefano Manfredi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stefano Manfredi is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2950-1806 | E‑ISSN 2950‑1792
Titles
Arabic in Contact
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. read more
Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles
Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
2023 A corpus-driven description of o in Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:2, pp. 290–319 | Article
Widely attested in both creole and non-creole languages of the Atlantic basin, the function word o has been traditionally described as a ‘sentence/phrase final particle’, owing to its typical syntactic behaviour, rather than to its multiple grammatical meanings. Based on the corpus-driven… read more
2018 The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives, Tosco, Mauro (ed.), pp. 131–149 | Chapter
This paper aims at describing the forms and the meanings of modal items in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic, a Western Sudanic Arabic dialect spoken in Southwestern Sudan. It presents a polysemic analysis of modal items in light of the participant-oriented approach, and it shows how modality can be… read more
2018 Arabic in contact, now and then Arabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
2017 Demonstratives and the emergence of a definite article in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2, pp. 205–232 | Article
In this study I provide a description of the morphosyntax and the functions of demonstratives in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi, two closely related Arabic-based contact languages. The study describes the process of acquisition of demonstrative pronouns and determiners and it explains the formal and… read more
2015 The intonation of topic and focus: Zaar (Nigeria), Tamasheq (Niger), Juba Arabic (South Sudan) and Tripoli Arabic (Libya) Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 63–115 | Article
A follow-up of the CorpAfroAs project, this paper presents a typologically-oriented study of the intonation of Topic and Focus in four Afroasiatic languages (Zaar, Tamasheq, Juba Arabic and Tripoli Arabic), in relation to their phonological and information structures. The different prosodic systems… read more
2015 Language contact, borrowing and codeswitching Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 283–308 | Article
Within the larger rubric of language contact we will analyze in this chapter the two phenomena of lexical borrowing and codeswitching as represented in the languages of the CorpAfroAs database. After establishing a theoretical background concerning the difficult distinction between borrowing and… read more
2014 The morphosyntax and prosody of topic and focus in Juba Arabic Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 319–351 | Article
The article discusses the information structure of Juba Arabic, an Arabic-based pidgincreole of South Sudan, showing how the expression of topic and focus is the result of a complex interaction of morphosyntactic and prosodic means. While the lexical elements used in the expression of topic and… read more
2014 Introduction Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 207–210 | Article