This paper aims at analyzing a series of religious expressions typical of Arabic and related to what some scholars recently called Allāh-Lexicon. By assuming that these items constitute a lexical reflection of the self-representation of the speaker’s cultural identity, we can observe that their context extension and frequency of use is so high that they end up pervading deeply all varieties of spoken Arabic not only at the lexical level, but also at the pragmatic level. Is it therefore conceivable that precisely this high frequency of use has also triggered processes of grammatical change?

Theophoric Formulae in Spoken Arabic(s). A Trigger for Grammaticalization?

Bozza C.;Mion G.
2025-01-01

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This paper aims at analyzing a series of religious expressions typical of Arabic and related to what some scholars recently called Allāh-Lexicon. By assuming that these items constitute a lexical reflection of the self-representation of the speaker’s cultural identity, we can observe that their context extension and frequency of use is so high that they end up pervading deeply all varieties of spoken Arabic not only at the lexical level, but also at the pragmatic level. Is it therefore conceivable that precisely this high frequency of use has also triggered processes of grammatical change?
2025
Arabic; theophoric formulae; Allāh-Lexicon; grammaticalization
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