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Title African Arabic : approaches to dialectology / ed. by Mena Lafkioui
Published Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2013
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Description 1 online resource (text (viii, 301 pages))
Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 258
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 258. 1861-4302
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Arabic language -- Dialects -- Africa, North
Arabic language -- Africa, North
Arabic language -- Dialectology
Languages in contact -- Africa, North
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Arabic language
Arabic language -- Dialects
Languages in contact
Arabisch
Mundart
Grammatik
Wortschatz
North Africa
Afrika
Form Electronic book
Author Lafkioui, Mena
LC no. 2013011988
ISBN 9783110292343
3110292343