Reinventing Negation Patterns in Moroccan Arabic

Authors :: 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)
Mena Lafkioui
Source :: African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology, Mena Lafkioui. African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.51-94 2013, 978-3-11-029232-9, Mena B. Lafkioui
Publication Year :: 2013
Publisher :: HAL CCSD, 2013.
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.

Subjects :: Berber
Arabic
[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
Negation
Contact-induced innovation processes

Language :: English
ISBN :: 978-3-11-029232-9
ISBNs :: 9783110292329
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology, Mena Lafkioui. African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.51-94 2013, 978-3-11-029232-9, Mena B. Lafkioui
Accession number :: edsair.dedup.wf.001..d7a12ce427b697440398b68e87aeb46a

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