1. Reinventing Negation Patterns in Moroccan Arabic
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Mena B. Lafkioui, Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire (LLACAN), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Mena Lafkioui
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Berber ,Arabic ,[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics ,Negation ,Contact-induced innovation processes - Abstract
International audience; The present chapter examines how new negation patterns are created in Moroccan Arabic in the Oujda region, North East Morocco, through contactwith Berber (Tarifit language, North Morocco, see Figure 1).1 The discussed cases concern contact-induced innovation processes in MoroccanArabic negation, through which the morphological data as well as the syntactic structuring and semantic functioning have been modified by analogywith Berber negation.
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- 2013