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      GRAMMATICALIZATION IN NIGERIAN PIDGIN Translated title: GRAMATICALIZACIÓN EN EL PIDGIN NIGERIANO

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          Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process. One of the consequences of this increased dynamism of NP is the development of lexical items into grammatical markers which is an expected natural process. In this paper, we examine language-internal mechanisms that transform lexical items into morphosyntactic items either for semantic value, creativity, expressivity or routinization. Our basic argument is that grammaticalization in NP is not contact-induced but a language-internal phenomenon, which reveals that NP has both a synchronic and diachronic existence that are imperative in evolving its unique grammar.

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          Como resultado de su proceso sostenido de expansión social, el pidgin nigeriano (en adelante NP) ha adoptado roles y funciones elaboradas, adquiriendo nuevos terrenos en diferentes ámbitos. Una de las consecuencias de este mayor dinamismo del NP es el desarrollo de unidades léxicas en los marcadores gramaticales, lo cual constituye un proceso natural esperado. En este trabajo, examinamos los mecanismos internos del lenguaje que transforman las unidades léxicas en unidades morfosintácticas, ya sea por su valor semántico, por su creatividad, por su expresividad o por su rutinización. Nuestro argumento básico es que la gramaticalización en NP no es inducida por el contacto, sino que se trata de un fenómeno interno de la lengua, lo que revela que el NP tiene una existencia tanto sincrónica como diacrónica, imprescindible en la evolución de su singular gramática.

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                Journal
                ikala
                Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura
                Íkala
                Escuela de Idiomas, Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia )
                0123-3432
                August 2012
                : 17
                : 2
                : 167-179
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversity of Calabar Nigeris eyomensah@ 123456unical.edu.ng
                Article
                S0123-34322012000200004 S0123-3432(12)01700204
                4a5c5e10-0673-415f-a726-2c5a818a2d00

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 22 May 2012
                : 14 May 2012
                : 03 December 2011
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 22, Pages: 13
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                semantic change,grammar,contact linguistics,Nigerian Pidgin,grammaticalization,cambio semántico,gramática,lingüística de contacto,pidgin nigeriano,gramaticalización

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