Arabic as a Minority LanguageJonathan Owens Walter de Gruyter, 2000 - 458 pages CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. |
Contents
Historical perspectives | 45 |
Paul Wexler | 65 |
Anna Zelkina | 89 |
Arabic ethnic minorities | 113 |
Charles Kieffer | 181 |
Rafael Talmon | 199 |
Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan | 221 |
a quantitative approach | 259 |
Crossethnic and nonArab perspectives | 347 |
Fadila Brahimi | 371 |
Utz Maas | 383 |
Fadila Brahimi and Jonathan Owens | 405 |
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adjectives African Alawites Algerian Arabic/French Arabic dialects Arabic language Arabic origin Arabic-speaking Aramaic bedouins Berber bilingual Borno borrowing Caucasus century Chad Classical Arabic codeswitching constituents context corpus cultural Daghestan Dariza diglossia discourse markers dominant Dutch nouns embedded Dutch embedded language English ethnic European example feminine finite clause French frequent gender grammar Hatay Hausa Hebrew insertion instance interview Islamic Israel Israeli Jewish Jews Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Spanish Kanuri koranic school lexical linguistic loanwords Maiduguri matrix language minority language Moroccan Arabic Moroccan Arabic/Dutch Morocco morphemes morphological mother tongue Mozarabic Muslim Nigerian Arabic non-Arabic noun phrase patterns Persian phonetic phonological plural political Poplack population prefix pronouns relatively relexification Romance sample secret language secret word semantic social sociolinguistic speaking Standard Arabic loans status stem suffix syntactic Table tokens Turkish variables varieties of Arabic verbal verbs villages vowels Western Neo-Aramaic