Contemporaneous Comparative Corpora and Historical Linguistic Reconstruction

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI:10.1353/anl.2020.0000

J. Owens

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Abstract

Abstract:A comparison of two large oral corpora, one Nigerian Arabic, one Egyptian, show a massive expansion, both quantitative and structural-functional, of the demonstrative in Nigerian Arabic. Contact with other languages of the Lake Chad area, into which Arabic speakers began to move about 1215 ce, explains the innovations in the use of the Nigerian Arabic demonstrative. Straightforward comparison of corpora offers lucid insights into basic historical linguistic questions such as contact-based vs. internal change, the relation between contact and simplification, and how contact-induced changes integrate into inherited systems. Because of its extensive linguistic history and wide dispersion, Arabic is particularly well suited to such investigations.

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当代比较语料库与历史语言学重构

摘要：对两个大型口语语料库（一个尼日利亚阿拉伯语语料库和一个埃及语语料库）的比较表明，尼日利亚阿拉伯语中的指示语在数量和结构功能上都有很大的扩展。大约公元1215年，讲阿拉伯语的人开始迁移到乍得湖地区，与该地区其他语言的接触解释了尼日利亚阿拉伯语示范语使用的创新。语料库的直接比较为基本的历史语言学问题提供了清晰的见解，如基于接触的变化与内部变化、接触与简化之间的关系，以及接触诱导的变化如何融入遗传系统。由于其广泛的语言历史和广泛的分布，阿拉伯语特别适合此类调查。

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Anthropological Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification.