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African Arabic : approaches to dialectology /

The volume presents the state of the art in research on African varieties of Arabic. Leading scholars from around the world address topics dealing with language contact, the development of Arabic-based pidgins and creoles, synchronic language variation and diachronic language reconstruction.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Lafkioui, Mena
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, Ã2013.
Ã2013
Collection:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 258.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Addresses of contributors; Introduction; Grammar studies in African Arabic dialectology; Chapter 1. Native and non-native varieties of Arabic in an emerging urban centre of western Sudan. Evidence from Kadugli; Chapter 2. Reinventing negation patterns in Moroccan Arabic; Chapter 3. The prosody of Juba Arabic: split prosody, morphophonology, and slang; Chapter 4. Grammaticalized uses of the verb?a(a) in Arabic: a Maghrebian specificity?; Chapter 5. Some new information about Bongor Arabic; Lexicological studies in African Arabic dialectology.
  • Chapter 6. Strata on loanwords from Arabic and other Semitic languages in Northern SomaliChapter 7. Sub-Saharan lexical influence in North African Arabic and Berber; Chapter 8. Lexical aspects of Maghrebi Arabic; Chapter 9. Arab-Berber contacts in the Middle Ages and ancient Arabic dialects: new evidence from an old Iba?ite religious text; Index.