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The Arabic influence on Northern Berber /

"The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber provides an overview of the effects of language contact on a wide array of Berber languages spoken in the Maghrib. These languages have undergone important changes in their lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax as a result of over a thousand years o...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kossmann, Maarten G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 67.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber provides an overview of the effects of language contact on a wide array of Berber languages spoken in the Maghrib. These languages have undergone important changes in their lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax as a result of over a thousand years of Arabic influence. The social situation of Berber-Arabic language contact is similar all over the region: Berber speakers introducing Arabic features into their language, with only little language shift going on. Moreover, the typological profile of the different Berber varieties is relatively homogenous. The comparison of contact-induced change in Berber therefore adds up to a study in typological variation of contact influence under very similar linguistic and social conditions."--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 461 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004253094
9004253092
1299808263
9781299808263