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Variability of nominal genitives in Casablanca Moroccan Arabic

Abstract

This paper uses sociolinguistic variationist methods to quantitatively analyze patterns of nominal genitive usage in natural speech data from Casablanca Moroccan Arabic. The two variants of nominal genitives, the analytic genitive (involving a genitive exponent /dja:l/ or /d/) and the synthetic genitive (or construct state) are examined using multivariate analysis. Results show that the synthetic genitive is highly correlated with inalienable possession, as previous literature claims. The analytic is predominant overall when the possessor is a lexical noun, partly supporting claims that Moroccan Arabic uses it the most, but the synthetic is still dominant with pronoun possessors.

Abstract

This paper uses sociolinguistic variationist methods to quantitatively analyze patterns of nominal genitive usage in natural speech data from Casablanca Moroccan Arabic. The two variants of nominal genitives, the analytic genitive (involving a genitive exponent /dja:l/ or /d/) and the synthetic genitive (or construct state) are examined using multivariate analysis. Results show that the synthetic genitive is highly correlated with inalienable possession, as previous literature claims. The analytic is predominant overall when the possessor is a lexical noun, partly supporting claims that Moroccan Arabic uses it the most, but the synthetic is still dominant with pronoun possessors.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. Part I. Sociolinguistics
  6. Palestinian Arabic in the diaspora 3
  7. Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme 27
  8. Variability of nominal genitives in Casablanca Moroccan Arabic 51
  9. Part II. Phonetics and phonology
  10. Plain-emphatic R phonemes in Arabic 77
  11. Some grammatical features of Faifi Arabic with a focus on emphatic fricatives 99
  12. Part III. Syntax
  13. The imperfective verb and the progressive aspect in Arabic 121
  14. Remnant-movement analysis of questions with final wh-words in Jordanian Arabic 147
  15. Part IV. First language acquisition
  16. Tracing the acquisition of definiteness in Emirati Arabic 169
  17. Index 199
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII
https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.11.03pra

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. Part I. Sociolinguistics
  6. Palestinian Arabic in the diaspora 3
  7. Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme 27
  8. Variability of nominal genitives in Casablanca Moroccan Arabic 51
  9. Part II. Phonetics and phonology
  10. Plain-emphatic R phonemes in Arabic 77
  11. Some grammatical features of Faifi Arabic with a focus on emphatic fricatives 99
  12. Part III. Syntax
  13. The imperfective verb and the progressive aspect in Arabic 121
  14. Remnant-movement analysis of questions with final wh-words in Jordanian Arabic 147
  15. Part IV. First language acquisition
  16. Tracing the acquisition of definiteness in Emirati Arabic 169
  17. Index 199
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