DEMONSTRATIVES IN A BEDOUIN ARABIC DIALECT OF WESTERN SUDAN

Stefano Manfredi (1)

1 LLACAN - Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire

This article aims at describing the forms, the distribution and the functions of demonstratives in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic, an Arabic dialect spoken by semi-nomadic cattle herders living in the Southern Kordofan State of the Republic of Sudan. Based on an oral corpus gathered on field, the study analyses in typological perspective the morphosyntactic and the pragmatic features of demonstrative pronouns and determiners as well as of sentential and locational demonstratives.

Mots clés: Sudanic Arabic; demonstratives; reference; grammaticalization

Domaines: Linguistique

Stefano Manfredi. DEMONSTRATIVES IN A BEDOUIN ARABIC DIALECT OF WESTERN SUDAN. Folia Orientalia, 2014. ⟨halshs-01681143⟩