Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK:Grammar of Amazigh

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Date: 12 Mar 2004
From:estry at iam.net.ma
Subject:Grammar of Amazigh


A Grammar of Amazigh (Berber)

By: Fatima Sadiqi and Moha Ennaji

Publications of the Faculty of Letters 1, Fès, Morocco (2004

The grammar of Amazigh presented in this book is a descriptive  
simplified grammar of the language. It draws from a number of previous  
Amazigh grammars, particularly Sadiqi’s (1997) Grammaire du Berbère and  
Abdul-Massih’s (1991) Grammar of Tamazight. This book is aimed at  
contributing to facilitate the standardisation of Amazigh at a time  
when the teaching of the language has become a reality. Descriptive  
grammars of the Amazigh language are necessary for writing primary  
school textbooks, with the aim of teaching Amazigh for the first time  
in the history of Morocco.

              We have not presupposed any apriori particular theoretical  
framework in the writing of this grammar, but we use widely adopted and  
cross-theoretical broad concepts in modern linguistics such as the  
notion of the phoneme, that of a morpheme, or that of a subordinate  
clause. In an effort to be as clear as possible, we capitalized more on  
delineating the major aspects of the language that cannot be  
circumvented in the teaching of, or writing about, Amazigh as a  
language.

              This book contains three major chapters: phonology,  
morphology, and syntax. The chapters are inter-related in the sense  
that each one of them feeds into the others and a combination of the  
three constitutes the grammar (in its broadest sense) of Amazigh.

For further information, please contact: mennaji2002 at yahoo.fr

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