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1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) : illustrations |
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Impact, studies in language and society ; v. 4 |
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Impact, studies in language and society ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
NEIGHBORHOOD AND ANCESTRY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Lethem: Revenge -- 1.1.1 The western variationist model: standard, prestige, vernacular -- 1.1.2 X-Y norms -- 1.1.3 Functional diglossia -- 1.1.4 Urban neighborhood, ancestry and kinship -- 1.1.5 The concept urban -- 1.1.6 Summary of book -- 1.2 Data, Methodology, Terminology -- 1.2.1 Data -- 1.2.2 Methodology and statistical procedures -- 1.2.3 Terminology |
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1.3 The Arabs in the Lake Chad Basin1.4 Arabic in Nigeria -- CHAPTER 2. The Peculiar Unity of Nigerian Arabic -- 2.1 -t Perfect -- 2.2 Verb-internal Epenthesis: Making a Rule of an Exception -- 2.3 Splitting Paradigms, Regularly -- 2.4 Irregular Innovation -- CHAPTER 3. The Linguistic Variables -- 3.1 The Variables and Their Variants -- 3.1.1 Three phonological features -- 3.1.1.1 Short high v owels: i vs. u -- 3.1.1.2 *h/? e vs. *h/? a -- 3.1.1.3 Stress: cvcvc/cvcvc -- 3.1.2 Morphological Variation -- 3.1.2.1 Feminine singular: -aaya, -á |
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3.1.2.2 Preformative vowel: H-L3.1.2.3 'we', n-/n ... u -- 3.1.2.4 ' I', ba-/n- -- 3.1.2.5 Modal: b-/Ã? -- 3.1.2.6 Active participle + object suffix: 0/intrusive -in- -- 3.1.2.7 3 masculine singular object pronoun: -a/-e -- 3.1.2.8 3fsg object suffix: -ha/-he -- 3.1.2.9 3 feminine plural object suffix: -hin/-han -- 3.1.3 Summary of 13 indices -- 3.2 The Variants: Examples -- 3.3 Quantity of variation -- CHAPTER 4. The Comparative Dialectology of the 13 Linguistic Variables -- 4.1 Afghani-Nigerian Arabic Isoglosses -- 4.1.1 Afghani Arabic, very rare isoglosses |
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4.1.1.1 Phonology4.1. 1.2 Morphology -- 4.1.2 Rare isoglosses -- 4.2 The Linguistic Variables and Arabic Dialectology -- 4.2.1 Short high vowels -- 4.2.2 *Äa, *? a -- 4.2.3 Stress -- 4.2.4 -a ̃ -aaya f. singular -- 4.2.5 AP + suffix: intrusive -in- -- 4.2.6 Preformative vowel, a ̃ i -- 4.2.7 Modal b-, Ã? -- 4.2.8 lpl, n-, n- ...-u -- 4.2.9 lsg, ba-, n- -- 4.2.10 Object pronoun variants -- 4.3 Cameroonian and Chadian Dialects -- 4.4 Overview of Western Sudanic Arabic Dialects -- CHAPTER 5. Rural Nigerian Arabic -- 5.1 The Villages |
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5.2 Linguistic Summary5.2.1 Non-significant differences -- 5.2.2 Significant differences -- 5.2.3 Ngala or no Ngala? -- 5.3 Detailed Cases -- 5.3.1 Individual speakers and migration -- 5.3.2 The interpretation of two variable features -- 5.4 Dialect Maps -- CHAPTER 6. Maiduguri and the Basic Sample -- 6.1 Background -- 6.1.1 General history of Maiduguri -- 6.1.2 Arabs in Maiduguri -- 6.2 Arabic in the Borno Media -- 6.3 The Sample -- 6.4 Data Collection -- 6.5 The Linguistic Variables in Maiduguri -- 6.5.1 An overview |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-389) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabic language -- Dialects -- Nigeria -- Maiduguri
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Sociolinguistics -- Nigeria -- Maiduguri
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Arabic language -- Dialects
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Language and languages
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Sociolinguistics
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Mundart
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Arabisch.
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Spreektaal.
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Taalvariatie.
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Maiduguri (Nigeria) -- Languages
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Nigeria -- Maiduguri
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Nigeria
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Arabisch.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027275615 |
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9027275610 |
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