Aspects Of The Morphosyntax Of Tarifit Berber
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Author | : Abdel El Hankari |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2021-08-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1527574075 |
Tarifit Berber is one of the less-studied Berber languages. This book is a comprehensive investigation of the overarching themes which lie at the heart of the morphosyntax of Berber. This includes a grammatical description of parts of speech, the inflectional classes of nouns, the construct state, word order, clitics, and valency. These topics are investigated within the minimalist approach to syntactic theory. One of the most significant findings of the book is that Tarifit Berber is claimed to have gone through a grammatical shift in word order from verb-subject-object (VSO), as displayed by the major studied Berber varieties, to a topic-prominent system. Novel analyses are also proposed for clitics and the causative system, in order to bring these grammatical aspects within the range of current theories.
Author | : Alireza Korangy |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9819956900 |
Author | : Guglielmo Cinque |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 990 |
Release | : 2008-10-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0195136519 |
Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved." "This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--Jacket.
Author | : Clive W. McClelland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Rif language |
ISBN | : |
The Berbers are the original inhabitants of North Africa, in residence long before the Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals or the Arabs. Their languages, from the Afroasiatic language family, are spoken throughout the region, from the Siwa Oasis in Egypt to the Atlantic coast, and as far south as southern Niger and Mali. This book is a representation of the most commonly utilized words and phrases in one of these Berber dialects, in northeastern Morocco. Despite the fact that more than 1 million inhabitants speak the language today, social and economic changes are causing many young people to leave their mother tongue and concentrate on languages of upward mobility, such as Modern Standard Arabic, French and Spanish. Consequently, in an effort to help preserve this unwritten, little-studied and undocumented language, this work was produced.
Author | : Yahya E-Rramdani |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Few people wonder how language acquisition is possible. How do human beings within few years after birth become able to speak by themselves without any explicit guidance, transcending both their limited experience and biological limitations? How is it possible that a child is capable of learning any language, or even more than one language easily? It is this miraculous nature of language acquisition which is the topic of this study. Children of minority groups in the Netherlands do not reach native-like mastery in the language of their parents or their primary home language. The proficiency of these children seems to deviate from established norms of native speakers in the country of origin. Deviations from such norms implicitly refer to inaccurate or incorrect grammatical output. Such deviations can be temporary, related to a slow-down in the order of acquisition, or enduring and permanent as a result of incomplete acquisition. After 40 years of migration, and at the time that the Moroccan community is counting its third generation, many questions emerge as to the process of Berber acquisition and status quo of proficiency of children in the Netherlands in comparison with their peers in Morocco. The outcome of this fascinating comparison is yet the beginning of a deeper understanding of the fascinating path of language acquisition in migration.
Author | : Moha Ennaji |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2005-01-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780387239798 |
In this book, I attempt to show how colonial and postcolonial political forces have endeavoured to reconstruct the national identity of Morocco, on the basis of cultural representations and ideological constructions closely related to nationalist and ethnolinguistic trends. I discuss how the issue of language is at the centre of the current cultural and political debates in Morocco. The present book is an investigation of the ramifications of multilingualism for language choice patterns and attitudes among Moroccans. More importantly, the book assesses the roles played by linguistic and cultural factors in the development and evolution of Moroccan society. It also focuses on the impact of multilingualism on cultural authenticity and national identity. Having been involved in research on language and culture for many years, I am particularly interested in linguistic and cultural assimilation or alienation, and under what conditions it takes place, especially today that more and more Moroccans speak French and are influenced by Western social behaviour more than ever before. In the process, I provide the reader with an updated description of the different facets of language use, language maintenance and shift, and language attitudes, focusing on the linguistic situation whose analysis is often blurred by emotional reactions, ideological discourses, political biases, simplistic assessments, and ethnolinguistic identities.
Author | : Ahmed Boukous |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Berber languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christiaan Wouter Kusters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mena Lafkioui |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110292343 |
This present book studies from a dialectological perspective various African Arabic varieties, such as Maghreb Arabic, Bongor Arabic, Juba Arabic and Logorà 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.
Author | : Jeff Mielke |
Publisher | : Oxford Studies in Typology and |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty. Distinctive features in phonology distinguish one meaningful sound from another. Since the mid-twentieth century they have been seen as a set characterizing all possible phonological distinctions and as an integral part of Universal Grammar, the innate language faculty underlying successive versions of Chomskyan generative theory. The usefulness of distinctive features in phonological analysis is uncontroversial, but the supposition that features are innate and universal rather than learned and language-specific has never, until now, been systematically tested. In his pioneering account Jeff Mielke presents the results of a crosslinguistic survey of natural classes of distinctive features covering almost six hundred of the world's languages drawn from a variety of different families. He shows that no theory is able to characterize more than 71 percent of classes, and further that current theories, deployed either singly or collectively, do not predict the range of classes that occur and recur. He reveals the existence of apparently unnatural classes in many languages. Even without these findings, he argues, there are reasons to doubt whether distinctive features are innate: for example, distinctive features used in signed languages are different from those in spoken languages, even though deafness is generally not hereditary. The author explains the grouping of sounds into classes and concludes by offering a unified account of what previously have been considered to be natural and unnatural classes. The data on which the analysis is based are freely available in a program downloadable from the publisher's web site.