African Arabic : approaches to dialectology / edited by Mena Lafkioui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lafkioui, Mena.

Contributor:

Lafkioui, Mena.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 258.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 258

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 258

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Dialects--Africa, North.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Africa, North.

Arabic language--Dialectology.

Languages in contact--Africa, North.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : de Gruyter Mouton, is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co, KG, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 lexicology are discussed in this volume; e.g. the Arabic loanwords in Somali with regard to the strata in South Arabian, the structural features of Logorì Arabic and its use as Lingua Franca or native language, the contact-induced innovation processes in North African Arabic negation by analogy with Berber negation. On the other hand, the African Arabic theme is approached from a more general perspective analysing the contact effects on linguistic features and systems from a broader comparative, typological and universal viewpoint, e.g. a general typology of Arabic in Africa, the question of possible universal features of pidginization and creolization drawn on evidence from Arabic-based pidgins and creoles. Its outcomes offer important insights for all linguistic studies and approaches, and directly connect with other research fields such as sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics and language acquisition.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Addresses of contributors

Introduction / Lafkioui, Mena

Grammar studies in African Arabic dialectology

Native and non-native varieties of Arabic in an emerging urban centre of western Sudan. Evidence from Kadugli / Manfredi, Stefano

Reinventing negation patterns in Moroccan Arabic / Lafkioui, Mena

The prosody of Juba Arabic: split prosody, morphophonology and slang / Nakao, Shuichiro

Grammaticalized uses of the verb ṛa(a) in Arabic: a Maghrebian specificity? / Taine-Cheikh, Catherine

Some new information about Bongor Arabic / Luffin, Xavier

Lexicological studies in African Arabic dialectology

Strata on loanwords from Arabic and other Semitic languages in Northern Somali / Banti, Giorgio

Sub-Saharan lexical influence in North African Arabic and Berber / Souag, Lameen

Lexical aspects of Maghrebi Arabic / Behnstedt, Peter

Arab-Berber contacts in the Middle Ages and ancient Arabic dialects: new evidence from an old Ibāḍite religious text / Brugnatelli, Vermondo

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110292343

3110292343

OCLC:

851969996