The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber

Kossmann, Maarten

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“…Paradigm Insertion Strategy 4 is rare and need not be discussed here further (but see e.g. [33,34]). Strategy 1, Direct Insertion, is relatively frequent: the foreign verb stem is simply treated like a native stem.…”

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From Colombo to Athens: Areal and Universalist Perspectives on Bilingual Compound Verbs

Muysken

2016

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Most or all bilingual varieties of the languages spoken in the area between Sri Lanka and Greece have bilingual compound verbs, consisting of a lexical content verb from a donor language and a helping verb from the matrix language. In this paper, these verbs are described and analyzed, and the question is raised whether this widespread occurrence is specifically an areal feature, or a universally available pattern and a question of typological poise-the possibility of a construction arising due to propitious typological circumstances. Pleading for the areal perspective, it is concluded there is the fact that two large and important language families-Turkic and Indo-Iranian-either rapidly developed or already had a productive [noun + verb] construction. On the universalist side, it is clear that native [noun + verb] constructions very easily develop into [verb + verb] constructions in bilingual settings, though not in monolingual settings. This is a cross-generational change that is a contact phenomenon; that is to say, this development does not occur in monolingual, non-contact language settings.

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“…Not unexpectedly, imported verbs are assigned to this class. However, they always take the ending -ear rather than -ar: 34.…”

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From Colombo to Athens: Areal and Universalist Perspectives on Bilingual Compound Verbs

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2016

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“…Finally, the Hassānīya expansion from the 15th century further pushed back the south-western Berber lects and precipitated the long decline of Zenaga and Azer, as well as probably displacing the original language of the Nemadi and the Imraguen. Kossmann (1999Kossmann ( , 2013 points out that there are well-assimilated Latin loans associated with agricultural terminology which are part of proto-Berber, as well as numerous Arabic borrowings from that are found virtually across its range. This points to a series of levelling episodes within Berber, facilitated by the mobile culture of the nomads and a strong pressure to keep communication systems open, which may in turn be associated with the importance of the camel from the first century AD onwards (Brogan 1954).…”

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The Linguistic Prehistory of the Sahara

Blench¹

2019

Burials, Migration and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

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“…Berber and Arabic are only very distantly subject of the present article are not treated by Jaspers, and may have been absent in the speech of the group he studied. related, but due to a thousand years of language contact, many lexical and grammatical features are shared (Kossmann 2013).…”

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Key and the use of Moroccan function words in Dutch internet discourse

Kossmann¹

2017

Nederlandse Taalkunde

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In the Dutch used by Moroccan heritage youth one often encounters Moroccan Arabic and Berber function words inserted in otherwise Dutch discourse. This article studies a subset of these function words within the internet forum chaima.nl, a forum geared towards adolescent girls and young women of Moroccan descent in the Netherlands and Flanders. It aims to show that one major function of the insertion of these function words is to key the utterance as (self-)ironic and not-toserious. Samenvatting In het Nederlands van jongeren met een Marokkaanse achtergrond komen vaak Marokkaans-Arabische en Berberse functiewoorden voor die zijn ingevoegd in een anderszins volledig Nederlandse tekst. In dit artikel wordt een aantal van deze functiewoorden bestudeerd binnen het internet forum chaima.nl, een forum voor jonge vrouwen van Marokkaanse afkomst in Nederland en Vlaanderen. Het artikel probeert te laten zien dat het gebruik van deze functiewoorden de uiting als (zelf-)ironisch en niet al te serieus kan kenmerken.

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The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber

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From Colombo to Athens: Areal and Universalist Perspectives on Bilingual Compound Verbs

From Colombo to Athens: Areal and Universalist Perspectives on Bilingual Compound Verbs

The Linguistic Prehistory of the Sahara

Key and the use of Moroccan function words in Dutch internet discourse

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