The Arabic influence on Northern Berber

The Arabic influence on Northern Berber / by Maarten Kossmann, University of Leiden.

"The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber provides an overview of the effects of language contact on a wide array of Berber languages spoken in the Maghrib. These languages have undergone important changes in their lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax as a result of over a thousand years o...

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Main Author: Kossmann, Maarten G. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 67.
Subjects:
Berber languages > Foreign elements > Arabic.
Arabic language > Influence on Berber.
Languages in contact > Africa, North.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > African Languages.
Berber languages > Foreign elements > Arabic
Arabic language > Influence on Berber
Languages in contact
Berbersprachen
Sprachkontakt
Arabisch
Entlehnung
North Africa
Nordafrika
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Berber and Arabic; 2.1 The Afroasiatic Heritage; 2.2 Berber Classification; 2.3 Maghribian Arabic and the Arabicization of Northern Africa; 2.4 Sociolinguistics of Berber-Arabic Contact; 2.5 Diglossia and the Arabic Influence on Berber; 2.6 The Dating of Arabic-Based Berber Innovations; Chapter Three Berber in Contact: The Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Periods; 3.1 Proto-Berber; 3.2 Pre-Roman Loans in Berber; 3.3 Latin Loans in Berber; 3.4 Early Islamic Terminology; Chapter Four Lexicon; 4.1 Introduction.
  • 4.1.1 Core Borrowings vs. Cultural Borrowings4.1.2 Additive Borrowing; 4.1.3 Substitutive Borrowing; 4.1.4 Diglossic Insertion; 4.2 Quantitative Approaches; 4.3 Text Frequency of Arabic Borrowings; 4.4 Borrowing Frequency in the Lexicon: The LWT Sample; 4.5 Borrowing Frequency in the Lexicon: Core Vocabulary; 4.5.1 Borrowing Lists of Basic Vocabulary; 4.5.2 Borrowing Rates in a Number of Standard Lists; 4.5.3 Borrowing in the Leipzig-Jakarta List: Quantitative Results; 4.5.4 Borrowing in the Leipzig-Jakarta List: Detailed Lexical Study.
  • 4.6 Borrowings in Core Vocabulary: A Sample Survey in Nouns4.6.1 Body Parts; 4.6.2 Natural Phenomena; 4.6.3 Insects and other Small Non-Vertebrates; 4.6.4 Metals; 4.6.5 Cultivated Plants; 4.6.6 Domestic Animals; 4.7 Verbs; 4.7.1 Verbs in Basic Word Lists; 4.7.2 Verbs according to Activity Types and Contexts; 4.7.3 Verbs of the Household Context; 4.7.4 Verbs of Agriculture; 4.7.5 Verbs of the Market Context; 4.7.6 Movement Verbs; 4.7.7 Verbs of Cognition and Emotion; 4.7.8 Transitive Actions with (Normally) Inanimate Objects; Chapter Five Phonology.
  • 6.2.1 Non-Integrated Borrowings: General Features6.2.2 Paradigmatic Gender Relationship in Non-Integrated Borrowings; 6.3 Integrated Borrowings with Retention of the Arabic Article; 6.4 Non-integrated Borrowings Lacking the Arabic Article; 6.5 The Distribution of Integrated and Non-Integrated Borrowings over the Lexicon; 6.6 Comparing Berber Morphology and Non-Integrated Morphology; Chapter Seven Verbal Morphology; 7.1 General Morphological Facts; 7.2 Arabic Derived Forms in Berber; 7.3 The Insertion of Arabic Verb Shapes into Berber Morphology.

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