Autore
Melazzo, Roberta

Titolo
Un caso di rilessificazione in sinhala
Periodico
In verbis
Anno: 2020 - Volume: no - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 127 - Pagina finale: 137

A modern Indo-Aryan language, Sinhala is one of the official languages of SriLanka together with Tamil and English. There are two alternative forms of it:formal and informal or, more precisely, written and spoken Sinhala. The existenceof these two forms has produced diglossia. In the course of its historySinhala came into contact with Sanskrit, P􀆗li, Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch, andEnglish. When modern Sinhala is taken into account it is certainly Englishthat has influenced the idiom of Sri Lanka more than the others. The paperanalyses a peculiar usage of spoken Sinhala. The so-called ‘compound verb’construction, in which forms of the Sinhala verbs meaning “to doµ or “to be/becomeµ combine with a noun or respectively an adjective, is extended sothat those Sinhala verbs occur with non-integrated loanwords adopted fromEnglish. This phenomenon is interpreted as a case of rilexification.



SICI: 2279-8978(2020)NO:1<127:UCDRIS>2.0.ZU;2-V
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