ON MORPHOSYNTACTIC FEATURES OF “URDUBIC”
ON MORPHOSYNTACTIC FEATURES OF “URDUBIC”
Author(s): George Grigore, Gabriel BițunăSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Gulf Pidgin Arabic; Hindi Arabic; Urdu Pidgin Arabic; morphosyntax;
Summary/Abstract: This study is an investigative approach, highlighting some linguistic features, on theautobiographical speech of a Pakistani worker, in a pidgin used in the Gulf countries, consisting of Arabicand Urdu elements, subsequently named Urdubic. The corpus we analyze for this study is the story of theaforementioned Pakistani worker, recounted in this variety of Pidgin Arabic. The morphosyntactic featuresidentified in the text sample confirm that it is a language system developed as the result of contact withArabic. However, it also shows that there are phonetic, lexical, as well as morphosyntactic features that havedeveloped internally so that this pidgin could be successfully used by its speakers for the communication ofnot only their immediate needs, but also many more intricate concepts.
Journal: Romano-Arabica
- Issue Year: XXI/2022
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 85-102
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English, Arabic
