Arabic as a Minority LanguageJonathan Owens Mouton 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 |
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according adjectives African Algerian appears Aramaic associated Berber borrowing century Classical clause codeswitching comparative constituents context conversations corpus cultural Daghestan definite derived determined dialects discussion distribution dominant Dutch embedded English ethnic European example exist fact factors French frequent function further given hand Hebrew important influence insertion instance interview Islamic Israel Jews Kanuri knowledge koranic linguistic loans loanwords Maiduguri majority marked matrix language meaning minority Moroccan Arabic mother tongue Muslim namely native Arabic Nigerian Arabic North noted nouns occur origin particular patterns Persian phrase plural political population present pronouns questions reference relatively represented respect role sample secret significant situation social speakers speaking spoken Standard Arabic status stem structure suffix Table tokens tradition University variables varieties verbs villages words write written