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1)<br>Date: 01 Aug 2013<br>From:reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject:NEW BOOK:Arabic Influence on Berber<br><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Title: The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Publication Year: 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Publisher: Brill</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="http://www.brill.com/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.brill.com</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Book URL: </span><a href="http://www.brill.com/arabic-influence-northern-berber" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.brill.com/arabic-influence-northern-berber</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Author: Maarten G Kossmann</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hardback: ISBN: 9789004253087 Pages: 474 Price: Europe EURO 139</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hardback: ISBN: 9789004253087 Pages: 474 Price: U.S. $ 180</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstract:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber provides an overview of the effects of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">language contact on a wide array of Berber languages spoken in the Maghrib.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">These languages have undergone important changes in their lexicon, phonology,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">morphology, and syntax as a result of over a thousand years of Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">influence. The social situation of Berber-Arabic language contact is similar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">all over the region: Berber speakers introducing Arabic features into their</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">language, with only little language shift going on. Moreover, the typological</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">profile of the different Berber varieties is relatively homogenous. The</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">comparison of contact-induced change in Berber therefore adds up to a study in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">typological variation of contact influence under very similar linguistic and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">social conditions.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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