Essays in Arabic Dialectology

Introduction; Strategies of possessive structures in the Arabic dialects; 1. Strategy One: possessed + possessor; 2. Strategy Two: possessor + possessed; 3. Strategy Three: hagg, tab'; 4. Strategy Four: possessed + maal + possessor; 5. Strategy Five: possessed + {-en} + det. + possessor; 6. Strategy six: possessed + possessor pronoun + ntaa' + possessor ; 7. Strategy seven: possessor + adjectival + preposition + possessed; Concluding Remarks: Scaling the Strategies; References; On Syllabication, Stress and Intonation in an Urban Arabic Dialect; Introduction; Syllabication.

This volume brings together a number of previously published papers, which reflect a middle-of-the-road approach in Linguistic Analysis. The first part contains articles dealing with major grammatical techniques and strategies in Arabic dialects: articles on syllabication, stress and intonation in an urban Arabic dialect as well as on lexical borrowing. The second part deals with linguistic substitution as verbal dynamism, and with riddles and riddling in an Algerian context. Ce volume est un ensemble des articles deja publies dans le domaine de l'analyse linguistique. La methodologie suivie e.

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowlegements; Part I: Dialectology/Dialectologie; On relative clause formation in Arabic dialects of the Maghreb; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodological Preliminaries; 3. Complex and Embedded Structures; 3.1 The complex structures; 3.2 The embedded structures; 3.3 Other techniques of relative clause formation; 3.3.1 A general pattern; 3.3.2 A different technique in the formation of relative clauses; 3.3.3 Some references and historical considerations; 3.3.4 A final technique; 4. Conclusion; References; Possessive Constructions in Arabic: A Cross-dialectal Study.

1. The syllable2. Closed vs. Open syllables; 3. C -- V combination structures; 3.1 Short Closed + Short Closed; 3.2 Short Closed + Short Open; 3.3 Short Closed + Long Closed; 3.4 Short Open + Long Closed; 3.5 Long Closed + Short Closed ; and Long Closed + Short Open; 3.6 Long Open + Short Closed Short Open; Stress; Intonation; 1. Theme-Rheme Organization; 2. Utterance Intention; 2.1 Statements; 2.2 Commands and Questions; 2.2.1 Commands; 2.2.2 Questions; Conclusion; References; Emprunts Lexicaux dans des Dialectes Arabes Algériens; Introduction; 1. Emprunts lexicaux d'origine berbère.

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