The Emergence of Parallel grammars: An analysis of Arabic loanwords in Saraiki.

Autor: Syed, Nasir Abbas, Shafi, Sehrish, Alanazi, Sami Mohammed
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Zdroj: Kashmir Journal of Language Research; 2022, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p203-220, 18p
Abstrakt: This study presents data from Arabic loan word adaptation in Saraiki. The data are analyzed using Optimality Theory. The data show that speakers of a borrowing language sometimes change words of a source language obeying constraints which are neither operative in borrowing language, nor in a source language. Two types of repair strategy are discussed in the loanwords presented in this paper, namely gemination and stress shift. Vowel harmony also emerges in the context as a free ride natural effect. Based onthe evidence from Saraiki loanwords of Arabic origin, it is argued that in some contexts, speakers of a borrowing language develop a third phonology which is different from L1 (borrowing language) and L2 (source language) grammar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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