Stefano Manfredi

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefano Manfredi plays a role.

Journals

Titles

Arabic in Contact

Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 6] 2018. vi, 372 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles

Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 (2014) v, 253 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

Manfredi, Stefano and Slavomír Čéplö 2023 A corpus-driven description of o in Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin)Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:2, pp. 290–319 | Article
Widely attested in both creole and non-creole languages of the Atlantic basin, the function word o has been traditionally described as a ‘sentence/phrase final particle’, owing to its typical syntactic behaviour, rather than to its multiple grammatical meanings. Based on the corpus-driven… read more
Manfredi, Stefano 2018 The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara ArabicAfroasiatic: Data and perspectives, Tosco, Mauro (ed.), pp. 131–149 | Chapter
This paper aims at describing the forms and the meanings of modal items in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic, a Western Sudanic Arabic dialect spoken in Southwestern Sudan. It presents a polysemic analysis of modal items in light of the participant-oriented approach, and it shows how modality can be… read more
Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco 2018 Arabic in contact, now and thenArabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
In this study I provide a description of the morphosyntax and the functions of demonstratives in Juba Arabic and Ki-Nubi, two closely related Arabic-based contact languages. The study describes the process of acquisition of demonstrative pronouns and determiners and it explains the formal and… read more
Caron, Bernard, Cécile Lux, Stefano Manfredi and Christophe Pereira 2015 The intonation of topic and focus: Zaar (Nigeria), Tamasheq (Niger), Juba Arabic (South Sudan) and Tripoli Arabic (Libya)Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 63–115 | Article
A follow-up of the CorpAfroAs project, this paper presents a typologically-oriented study of the intonation of Topic and Focus in four Afroasiatic languages (Zaar, Tamasheq, Juba Arabic and Tripoli Arabic), in relation to their phonological and information structures. The different prosodic systems… read more
Manfredi, Stefano, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Mauro Tosco 2015 Language contact, borrowing and codeswitchingCorpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet (eds.), pp. 283–308 | Article
Within the larger rubric of language contact we will analyze in this chapter the two phenomena of lexical borrowing and codeswitching as represented in the languages of the CorpAfroAs database. After establishing a theoretical background concerning the difficult distinction between borrowing and… read more
Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco 2014 The morphosyntax and prosody of topic and focus in Juba ArabicArabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 319–351 | Article
The article discusses the information structure of Juba Arabic, an Arabic-based pidgincreole of South Sudan, showing how the expression of topic and focus is the result of a complex interaction of morphosyntactic and prosodic means. While the lexical elements used in the expression of topic and… read more
Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco 2014 IntroductionArabic-based Pidgins and Creoles, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 207–210 | Article