Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Addresses of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Grammar studies in African Arabic dialectology
6. Native and non-native varieties of Arabic in an emerging urban centre of western Sudan. Evidence from Kadugli 13
7. Reinventing negation patterns in Moroccan Arabic 51
8. The prosody of Juba Arabic: split prosody, morphophonology and slang 95
9. Grammaticalized uses of the verb ṛa(a) in Arabic: a Maghrebian specificity? 121
10. Some new information about Bongor Arabic 161
11. Lexicological studies in African Arabic dialectology
12. Strata on loanwords from Arabic and other Semitic languages in Northern Somali 185
13. Sub-Saharan lexical influence in North African Arabic and Berber 211
14. Lexical aspects of Maghrebi Arabic 237
15. Arab-Berber contacts in the Middle Ages and ancient Arabic dialects: new evidence from an old Ibāḍite religious text 271
16. Index 293