Dynamics of Language Use; Emerging TAM (tense, aspect & mood/modality) Categories in African Pidgin-Creoles

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· 발행기관 : 한국아프리카학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국아프리카 학회지 / 69권 / 3 ~ 54페이지
· 저자명 : 권명식

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Grammatical categories like tense, aspect and mood/modality are realized in great variation not only in its form, but also in their meaning or function in languages of the world (Comrie 1976, 1985, Palmer 1986, Kwon 2022). In case of Pidgin-Creole languages the variations are even wider, and the change of the structures is rapid. In addition, Pidgin-Creoles have their own peculiar structure comparing the so-called natural, or normal languages, for instance they are extremely lacking in morphological expressing the given grammatical categories (McWhorter 2001, Parkvall 2008, Leufkens 2013, Kwon 2020). Therefore, it is a hard task to explain the phenomenon in a coherent and consistent way. This paper classifies the African Pidgin-Creoles according to their lexifier languages, and then arranges the variety of linguistic data from African continent by the degree of grammaticalization of TAM-categories. Comparing the typologically different constructions, that is, the way how the different structures are represented, we will explain these differences from the angle of Usage-Based Construction Grammar approach (Bybee 2010, Diessel 2017, 2019, 2020, Schmid 2020), which has developed for last three more decades. The vast variations of TAM-expressions of African Pidgin-Creole seem to be best explained in that framework whereby the differences are the linguistic representations of speakers who participate in the given discourse situations with their differing linguistic experience and knowledge of their current mediums.

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