| Description |
1 online resource (text (viii, 301 pages)). |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 258 |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 258.
1861-4302
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Arabic language -- Dialects -- Africa, North.
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Arabic language -- Africa, North.
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Arabic language -- Dialectology.
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Languages in contact -- Africa, North.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Arabisch. (DE-588)4241223-7
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Mundart. (DE-588)4040725-1
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Grammatik. (DE-588)4021806-5
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Wortschatz. (DE-588)4126555-5
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Afrika. (DE-588)4000695-5
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| Added Author |
Lafkioui, Mena.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: African Arabic. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, cop. 2013 (DLC) 2013011988 |
| ISBN |
9783110292343 (electronic bk.) |
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3110292343 (electronic bk.) |
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