African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology / / ed. by Mena Lafkioui.

This present book studies from a dialectological perspective various African Arabic varieties, such as Maghreb Arabic, Bongor Arabic, Juba Arabic and Logorí Arabic. On the one hand, different specific linguistic aspects related to phonetics and phonology as well as to morphology, syntax and lexicolo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 258
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Addresses of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Grammar studies in African Arabic dialectology
  • Native and non-native varieties of Arabic in an emerging urban centre of western Sudan. Evidence from Kadugli
  • Reinventing negation patterns in Moroccan Arabic
  • The prosody of Juba Arabic: split prosody, morphophonology and slang
  • Grammaticalized uses of the verb ṛa(a) in Arabic: a Maghrebian specificity?
  • Some new information about Bongor Arabic
  • Lexicological studies in African Arabic dialectology
  • Strata on loanwords from Arabic and other Semitic languages in Northern Somali
  • Sub-Saharan lexical influence in North African Arabic and Berber
  • Lexical aspects of Maghrebi Arabic
  • Arab-Berber contacts in the Middle Ages and ancient Arabic dialects: new evidence from an old Ibāḍite religious text
  • Index