Arabic and contact-induced changeChristopher Lucas, Stefano Manfredi This volume offers a synthesis of current expertise on contact-induced change in Arabic and its neighbours, with thirty chapters written by many of the leading experts on this topic. Its purpose is to showcase the current state of knowledge regarding the diverse outcomes of contacts between Arabic and other languages, in a format that is both accessible and useful to Arabists, historical linguists, and students of language contact. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PreIslamic Arabic | 37 |
Classical and Modern Standard Arabic | 57 |
Arabic in Iraq Syria and southern Turkey | 83 |
Khuzestan Arabic | 115 |
Anatolian Arabic | 135 |
Cypriot Maronite Arabic | 159 |
Nigerian Arabic | 175 |
NeoAramaic | 371 |
Berber | 403 |
Beja | 419 |
Iranian languages | 441 |
Kurdish | 459 |
Northern Domari | 489 |
Jerusalem Domari | 511 |
Mediterranean Lingua Franca | 533 |
Maghrebi Arabic | 197 |
Moroccan Arabic | 213 |
Andalusi Arabic | 225 |
Ḥassāniyya Arabic | 245 |
Maltese | 265 |
Arabic in the diaspora | 303 |
Arabic pidgins and creoles | 321 |
Modern South Arabian languages | 351 |
The Amman dialect | 551 |
Dialect contact and phonological change | 567 |
Contact and variation in Arabic intonation | 583 |
Contactinduced grammaticalization between Arabic dialects | 603 |
Contact and calquing | 625 |
Contact and the expression of negation | 643 |
Index | 669 |
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