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First Published in 1990. This title embraces the descriptive, comparative and historical aspects of the language. It also concerns itself with the classical form as well as the modern and contemporary standard forms and their dialects. Moreover, it attempts to study the language in the appropriate regional, social and cultural settings. This series will be of interest not only to students and researchers in Arabic linguistics but also to students and scholars of other disciplines who are looking for information of theoretical, practical or pragmatic interest.
List of contents
List of tables, Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Map, 1 Introduction, 2 Sociolinguistics of Morocco, 3 Sketch of Basic Features of MCA, 4 Code-Switching, 5 Adaptation of CA (Classical Arabic) Borrowings, 6 Adaptation of European Borrowings, 7 Semantic Patterns of Borrowings, 8 Borrowings in Two Special Registers, 9 Borrowing Patterns in Two Neighbouring Arabic Dialects, 10 Reflections I: Structural Determinism in Borrowing Processes, 11 Reflections II: Pidgins/Creoles vs. Ordinary Language, Mixing, Appendix A: CA Borrowings in MCA, Appendix B: European Borrowings in MCA Verbs, Appendix C: European Borrowings in MCA Other Stems, Bibliography, Glossary of technical terms, Arabic Section
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Jeffrey Heath
