Author： Bakir Murtadha J.
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
E-ISSN： 1569-9870|25|2|201-228
ISSN： 0920-9034
Source： Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Vol.25, Iss.2, 2010-01, pp. : 201-228
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Abstract
This is a description of one of the essential constituents of sentence structure in one reduced linguistic system in use in various countries of the western coast of the Arab Gulf and Saudi Arabia, that has been given the name Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) in the very little that has been written about it. The paper starts with locating this reduced linguistic form in its sociolinguistic background. This is followed by a description of the morphological characteristics of the verbs used in this system. The discussion also involves how the grammatical categories that form part of the verbal system are signaled, when and if they are (e.g. tense, aspect, mood, modality, and those that mark agreement like gender, person, and number). Furthermore, the paper deals with the status of the copulative element and predication marker
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