Download or read book Aspects of the Morphosyntax of Tarifit Berber written by Abdel El Hankari and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarifit Berber is one of the less-studied Berber languages. This book is a comprehensive investigation of the overarching themes which lie at the heart of the morphosyntax of Berber. This includes a grammatical description of parts of speech, the inflectional classes of nouns, the construct state, word order, clitics, and valency. These topics are investigated within the minimalist approach to syntactic theory. One of the most significant findings of the book is that Tarifit Berber is claimed to have gone through a grammatical shift in word order from verb-subject-object (VSO), as displayed by the major studied Berber varieties, to a topic-prominent system. Novel analyses are also proposed for clitics and the causative system, in order to bring these grammatical aspects within the range of current theories.
Download or read book Aspects of the Morphosyntax of Tarifit Berber written by Abdel El Hankari and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarifit Berber is one of the less-studied Berber languages. This book is a comprehensive investigation of the overarching themes which lie at the heart of the morphosyntax of Berber. This includes a grammatical description of parts of speech, the inflectional classes of nouns, the construct state, word order, clitics, and valency. These topics are investigated within the minimalist approach to syntactic theory. One of the most significant findings of the book is that Tarifit Berber is claimed to have gone through a grammatical shift in word order from verb-subject-object (VSO), as displayed by the major studied Berber varieties, to a topic-prominent system. Novel analyses are also proposed for clitics and the causative system, in order to bring these grammatical aspects within the range of current theories.
Download or read book A Phonology of Tarifit Berber written by Clive W. McClelland and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a basic functionalist phonological analysis of Tarifit Berber, a mostly unwritten language spoken in northeastern Morocco. It reveals this language's phonological "boundaries" which "stretch" in language-specific ways.
Download or read book A Tarifit Berber English Dictionary written by Clive W. McClelland and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berbers are the original inhabitants of North Africa, in residence long before the Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals or the Arabs. Their languages, from the Afroasiatic language family, are spoken throughout the region, from the Siwa Oasis in Egypt to the Atlantic coast, and as far south as southern Niger and Mali. This book is a representation of the most commonly utilized words and phrases in one of these Berber dialects, in northeastern Morocco. Despite the fact that more than 1 million inhabitants speak the language today, social and economic changes are causing many young people to leave their mother tongue and concentrate on languages of upward mobility, such as Modern Standard Arabic, French and Spanish. Consequently, in an effort to help preserve this unwritten, little-studied and undocumented language, this work was produced.
Download or read book The Handbook of Berber Linguistics written by Alireza Korangy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Berber Morphology Introductory Notes written by Youcef Hdouch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , course: Morphology, language: English, abstract: Berber, an Afro-asiatic language spoken in North Africa, is one of the endangered languages in the area. The reason for this is that globalisation has turned attention towards hyper-central and super-central languages like English and French. Therefore, it is judicious to present a synopsis of its linguistic aspects inviting scholars from different schools to investigate issues relating to segmental, suprasegmental and word formation processes. In particular, this article aims to shed light on aspects of Berber nominal and verbal morphology and affixation. As far as the former is concerned, gender and number will be highlighted. As to second, verb structure will be analysed, peculiarities of aspectual stems and derivation pointed out. Finally, we conclude by considering the different affixes that attach to verb stems.
Download or read book The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber written by Maarten Kossmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber provides an overview of the effects of language contact on a wide array of Berber languages spoken in the Maghrib. These languages have undergone important changes in their lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax as a result of over a thousand years of Arabic influence. The social situation of Berber-Arabic language contact is similar all over the region: Berber speakers introducing Arabic features into their language, with only little language shift going on. Moreover, the typological profile of the different Berber varieties is relatively homogenous. The comparison of contact-induced change in Berber therefore adds up to a study in typological variation of contact influence under very similar linguistic and social conditions.
Download or read book A Tarifit Berber Dictionary written by C. W. Mcclelland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarifit Berber is a mostly unwritten and little-researched language. As far as is known, there is only one other dictionary, produced by a Spanish Catholic in the middle of the last century (i.e., Ibanez, Esteban. 1944. Diccionario Espa�ol-Rife�o. Madrid: Imprenta de la viuda de E. Maestre and (same author) 1949. Diccionario Rife�o-Espa�ol Etimol�gico. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient�ficas, Instituto de Estudios Africanos). Since then, the language has changed dramatically due to the dominance of French, Spanish, Arabic languages and European mass media. It is in the same family as Arabic and Hebrew, with its own distinctives. One of these is a unique alphabet, called Tifinagh.
Download or read book Morphotactics written by Karlos Arregi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the syntactic and postsyntactic components of word formation, and the role of hierarchical, featural, and linear restrictions within the auxiliary systems of several varieties of Basque. The postsyntactic component is modeled as a highly articulated system that accounts for what is shared and what exhibits variation across Basque dialects. The emphasis is on a principled ordering of postsyntactic operations based on their intrinsic properties, and on the relationship between representations in the Spellout component of grammar with other grammatical modules. The analyses in the book treat related phenomena in other languages and thereby have much to offer for a general morphology readership, as well as those interested in the syntax-morphology interface, the theory of Distributed Morphology, and Basque.
Download or read book Studies in Berber Syntax written by Fatima Sadiqi and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Tarifiyt Berber Nador Morocco written by Marten Kossmann and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acquiring Tarifit Berber by Children in the Netherlands and Morocco written by Yahya E-Rramdani and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people wonder how language acquisition is possible. How do human beings within few years after birth become able to speak by themselves without any explicit guidance, transcending both their limited experience and biological limitations? How is it possible that a child is capable of learning any language, or even more than one language easily? It is this miraculous nature of language acquisition which is the topic of this study. Children of minority groups in the Netherlands do not reach native-like mastery in the language of their parents or their primary home language. The proficiency of these children seems to deviate from established norms of native speakers in the country of origin. Deviations from such norms implicitly refer to inaccurate or incorrect grammatical output. Such deviations can be temporary, related to a slow-down in the order of acquisition, or enduring and permanent as a result of incomplete acquisition. After 40 years of migration, and at the time that the Moroccan community is counting its third generation, many questions emerge as to the process of Berber acquisition and status quo of proficiency of children in the Netherlands in comparison with their peers in Morocco. The outcome of this fascinating comparison is yet the beginning of a deeper understanding of the fascinating path of language acquisition in migration.
Download or read book Contrastive Syntax written by Moha Ennaji and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 1985 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at contrasting the structure of the Complex Sentence, namely relative clauses, complement clauses and coordinate sentences in English, Moroccan Arabic and Berber. The basic approach underlying the contrastive analysis conducted in this book is approximately the Standard Transformational approach. The book itself falls into four chapters. For ease of exposition, the introductory chapter includes a brief sociolinguistic survey of the three languages, and a brief outline of their most salient different syntactic features. Chapter two discusses in detail the relative clause, the status of the relative forms and their morphosyntax. Chapter three concerns itself with complement clauses and how the various structures involved contrast in these languages. The purpose of the fourth chapter is to give a sketchy overview of the syntax of joined structures in English, Moroccan Arabic and Berber, and discuss in detail the main characteristics of coordination in each language. Particular attention is drawn to the semantic processes at work. -- Author's website.
Download or read book Tarifit Berber Stories written by C. W. Mcclelland, Ph.d. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of Tarifit Berber oral narratives, written down in phonetic script along with morpheme-by-morpheme glosses and free English translations.
Download or read book The Amazigh Language at Home and at School written by Abderrahman El Aissati and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of articles prepared by the authors for the workshop From oral discourse structure in Berber to academic language skills in Dutch, held at Tilburg University (Netherlands). The content of the contributions proves highly relevant -- both scientifically and socially -- for the debate about the introduction of Berber in Moroccan public schools. The first few contributions give an overview of the sociolinguistic situation and the linguistic variation of the Amazigh language in Europe and in Morocco. Guus Extra reports on large scale home surveys in major European cities, with a focus on the Hague, and discusses the impact of such surveys on language planning. At a more micro level, Lafkioui presents a case for a linguistic analysis that takes variation as a starting point. In her view taking into consideration the language facts as well as the speakersʹ intuition is important in conceiving a standard Tarifit. Moving closer to what takes place at the level of the school, Bouylmani reports on the situation of the Amazigh language in the first two years of its introduction into the Moroccan public school, while also focusing on the ongoing debate regarding the choice of an alphabet for writing the Amazigh language. Mettouchi and Ismail present a project for building an internationally accessible corpus for Berber languages. In their contribution they illustrate the making of such a corpus, focusing on the difficulties of Berber as a language with many variants. Four contributions in this volume deal with the language itself in the form of written and oral discourse in Berber. Taifi discusses the use of oral discourse markers in Tamazight, which have as main function a non-linguistic context-bound function, thus making them characteristic of oral discourse. Bouhjar discusses results of an earlier research in the field of bilingual language acquisition in Brussels. She presents data illustrating language use of Berber-French and Moroccan-Arabic-French bilingual children in this large city. E-rramdani reports on one aspect of the acquisition of Tarifit in a migration context, namely the acquisition of the perfective by young children with Tarifit Berber as the main home language. Laghzaoui examines the text of a novel and some fragments from daily conversations in Tarifit Berber, comparing characteristics of written discourse with those of oral discourse. Next to the technical question of which terminology will be used, research should be carried out about issues such as the ongoing standardization of this language, the place of regional varieties in the school system, the economic value of learning this language at school, the future of the language as a school subject and/or as a language of instruction, etc. -- Publisher description from http://www.koeppe.de (Oct. 4, 2011).
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax written by Guglielmo Cinque and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve two functions: they provide a general and theoretical introduction to comparative syntax, its methodology, and its relation to other domains of linguistic inquiry; and they also provide a systematic selection of the best comparative work being done today on those language groups and families where substantial progress has been achieved." "This volume will be an essential resource for scholars and students in formal linguistics."--Jacket.
Download or read book Barayin Morphosyntax written by Joseph Lovestrand and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad.
