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- ISSN 0920-9034
- E-ISSN: 1569-9870
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The Source of Sango's 'BE'
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- Source: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Volume 1, Issue 2, Jan 1986, p. 205 - 223
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Abstract
The verb 'be' in Pidgin Sango is an innovation, for vernacular Sango has no copula. The development in Sango had important grammatical consequences. It is argued, with data both from Ngbandi and Kituba, that the most likely source of this verb is some form of Kikongo, which went through the process of pidginization in the nineteenth century.
© 1986 John Benjamins Publishing Company