Adnominal dat in North Saami – from a demonstrative determiner to a definite article?
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https://doi.org/10.7557/sda.8297Keywords:
demonstrative pronoun, definite article, North Saami, North Saami of young adultsAbstract
This article discusses the use of the demonstrative pronoun dat ‘it; that’ in adnominal position in spoken North Saami. More specifically, the contexts of use are analyzed in order to decide whether dat can be described as a definite article. The data is collected from NRK Sápmi youth radio programs.
Himmelmann (1998) suggests, based on Hawkins’ (1978; 1991) classification of the uses of the English definite article, contexts of use that can be utilized to distinguish between demonstrative pronouns and definite articles. Among these contexts, adnominal dat occurs in associative-anaphoric use that is usually permitted only for definite articles.
The data show that adnominal dat is expanding its use to a context that is typical of definite articles, and some changes characteristic of a grammaticalization process of demonstrative pronouns can be perceived. Even so, it is shown that adnominal dat cannot be considered to be a true definite article, but rather a demonstrative determiner that is mostly used to refer to aforementioned referents in discourse.
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