%0 Journal Article 
%A Avram, Andrei A.
%T Immigrant workers and language formation: Gulf Pidgin Arabic
%D 2014
%@ 1889-5425
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/21977
%X Ever since the oil boom of the 1970s, Saudi Arabia and the countries
on the western coast of the Arab Gulf, i.e. Kuwait, the United Arab
Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar, have been witnessing both a
significant increase in their non-national labour force and considerable
urbanization. Most of the immigrant workers come from South and
South-East Asia, with smaller number of expatriates from other
regions. The overwhelming majority of these foreign workers live
and work in the cities, which have thus become not only a meeting
place of speakers of a variety of languages, but also a linguistic laboratory
in which a new means of inter-ethnic communication, generally
known as Gulf Pidgin Arabic, has emerged in approximately the last
40 years. The present paper describes the main features of the phonology,
morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of this still under
researched pidgin. Also discussed are the various sources of these
features: the speakers’ first languages, the Foreigner Talk register of
Arabic, grammaticalization, Gulf Arabic, and English.

%K Immigrant workers
%K Urbanization
%K Mutilingualism
%K Pidgin formation
%K Gulf Pidgin Arabic
%K Trabajadores inmigrantes
%K Urbanización
%K Multilingüismo
%K Creación de pidgin
%K Pidgin del Golfo Pérsico
%K Lingüística
%K Linguistics
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala