Neighborhood and ancestry : variation in the spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Owens, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©1998.
Colección:Impact, studies in language and society ; v. 4.
Temas:
Arabic language > Dialects > Nigeria > Maiduguri.
Sociolinguistics > Nigeria > Maiduguri.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Arabic.
Arabic language > Dialects
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Mundart
Arabisch.
Spreektaal.
Taalvariatie.
Maiduguri (Nigeria) > Languages.
Nigeria > Maiduguri
Nigeria
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • NEIGHBORHOOD AND ANCESTRY
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Lethem: Revenge
  • 1.1.1 The western variationist model: standard, prestige, vernacular
  • 1.1.2 X-Y norms
  • 1.1.3 Functional diglossia
  • 1.1.4 Urban neighborhood, ancestry and kinship
  • 1.1.5 The concept urban
  • 1.1.6 Summary of book
  • 1.2 Data, Methodology, Terminology
  • 1.2.1 Data
  • 1.2.2 Methodology and statistical procedures
  • 1.2.3 Terminology
  • 1.3 The Arabs in the Lake Chad Basin1.4 Arabic in Nigeria
  • CHAPTER 2. The Peculiar Unity of Nigerian Arabic
  • 2.1 -t Perfect
  • 2.2 Verb-internal Epenthesis: Making a Rule of an Exception
  • 2.3 Splitting Paradigms, Regularly
  • 2.4 Irregular Innovation
  • CHAPTER 3. The Linguistic Variables
  • 3.1 The Variables and Their Variants
  • 3.1.1 Three phonological features
  • 3.1.1.1 Short high v owels: i vs. u
  • 3.1.1.2 *h/? e vs. *h/? a
  • 3.1.1.3 Stress: cvcvc/cvcvc
  • 3.1.2 Morphological Variation
  • 3.1.2.1 Feminine singular: -aaya, -á
  • 3.1.2.2 Preformative vowel: H-L3.1.2.3 'we', n-/n ... u
  • 3.1.2.4 ' I', ba-/n-
  • 3.1.2.5 Modal: b-/Ã?
  • 3.1.2.6 Active participle + object suffix: 0/intrusive -in-
  • 3.1.2.7 3 masculine singular object pronoun: -a/-e
  • 3.1.2.8 3fsg object suffix: -ha/-he
  • 3.1.2.9 3 feminine plural object suffix: -hin/-han
  • 3.1.3 Summary of 13 indices
  • 3.2 The Variants: Examples
  • 3.3 Quantity of variation
  • CHAPTER 4. The Comparative Dialectology of the 13 Linguistic Variables
  • 4.1 Afghani-Nigerian Arabic Isoglosses
  • 4.1.1 Afghani Arabic, very rare isoglosses
  • 4.1.1.1 Phonology4.1. 1.2 Morphology
  • 4.1.2 Rare isoglosses
  • 4.2 The Linguistic Variables and Arabic Dialectology
  • 4.2.1 Short high vowels
  • 4.2.2 *Äa, *? a
  • 4.2.3 Stress
  • 4.2.4 -a ~ -aaya f. singular
  • 4.2.5 AP + suffix: intrusive -in-
  • 4.2.6 Preformative vowel, a ~ i
  • 4.2.7 Modal b-, Ã?
  • 4.2.8 lpl, n-, n- ...-u
  • 4.2.9 lsg, ba-, n-
  • 4.2.10 Object pronoun variants
  • 4.3 Cameroonian and Chadian Dialects
  • 4.4 Overview of Western Sudanic Arabic Dialects
  • CHAPTER 5. Rural Nigerian Arabic
  • 5.1 The Villages
  • 5.2 Linguistic Summary5.2.1 Non-significant differences
  • 5.2.2 Significant differences
  • 5.2.3 Ngala or no Ngala?
  • 5.3 Detailed Cases
  • 5.3.1 Individual speakers and migration
  • 5.3.2 The interpretation of two variable features
  • 5.4 Dialect Maps
  • CHAPTER 6. Maiduguri and the Basic Sample
  • 6.1 Background
  • 6.1.1 General history of Maiduguri
  • 6.1.2 Arabs in Maiduguri
  • 6.2 Arabic in the Borno Media
  • 6.3 The Sample
  • 6.4 Data Collection
  • 6.5 The Linguistic Variables in Maiduguri
  • 6.5.1 An overview

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