Classical Arabic [ClA], the historical antecedent of Modern Standard Arabic [MSA], is a language reconstructed from a selected, close textual corpus, clearly removed from everyday speech. The analysis focuses on the formulaic features ClA and MSA inherited from their models, which are consistently missing from spoken Arabic variants; these features range from text chunks to morphological and syntactic patterns (including redundant case affixes, and syntactically determined partial agreement). The general consequence of the hypothesis presented is that formulaicity in written languages can be strongly reinforced by the model of literary varieties, even long after the original textual constraints disappeared. The influence of MSA on modern spoken varieties shows the possibility that such formulaic features find their path through spoken languages.
L'arabo classico, l'antecedente storico dell'arabo standard moderno, è una lingua ricostruita da un corpus testuale selezionato e chiuso, nettamente distinto dal linguaggio quotidiano. L'analisi si focalizza sui tratti formulari condivisi che le due varietà hanno ereditato dai loro modelli e che sono assenti nelle varietà di arabo parlato; questi tratti vanno da frammenti testuali a pattern morfologici e sintattici (inclusi gli affissi casuali ridondanti e l'accordo parziale specificato sintatticamente). La conseguenza generale dell'ipotesi presentata è che la formularità nelle lingue scritte può essere notevolmente rafforzata dal modello delle varietà letterarie, anche molto tempo dopo che le restrizioni testuali originarie sono scomparse. L'influenza dell'arabo standard moderno sulle varietà dialettali dimostra inoltre la possibilità che questi tratti formulari penetrino nelle lingue parlate.
Lancioni, G. (2009). Formulaic models and formulaicity in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic. In M.E. CORRIGAN R (a cura di), Formulaic Language (pp. 219-238).
Formulaic models and formulaicity in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic
LANCIONI, GIULIANO
2009-01-01
Abstract
Classical Arabic [ClA], the historical antecedent of Modern Standard Arabic [MSA], is a language reconstructed from a selected, close textual corpus, clearly removed from everyday speech. The analysis focuses on the formulaic features ClA and MSA inherited from their models, which are consistently missing from spoken Arabic variants; these features range from text chunks to morphological and syntactic patterns (including redundant case affixes, and syntactically determined partial agreement). The general consequence of the hypothesis presented is that formulaicity in written languages can be strongly reinforced by the model of literary varieties, even long after the original textual constraints disappeared. The influence of MSA on modern spoken varieties shows the possibility that such formulaic features find their path through spoken languages.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.