From Phonological Variation to Grammatical Change: Depalatalisation of /č/ in Salti

Herin, Bruno; Al‐Wer, Enam

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“…Third, given this account and its predictions, it follows that varieties outside the Peninsula which have more features of agreement or use dAgr must be, at some level, borrowing the usage from MSA. Herin & Al-Wer (2013) have observed that young speakers of Salti Arabic are abandoning their traditional agreement system in favor of an MSA-like system. Owens & Bani-Yasin (1987) also found interference from MSA in agreement, although in this study, they find it to be lexically based.…”

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A parallel corpus-based exploration of deflected agreement in Arabic varieties

Rouillier

2024

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Agreement in modern Arabic varieties exhibits much variation despite sharing similar features, such as feminine singular (deflected) agreement with plural controllers. The presence of deflected agreement has been attributed both to retention (Bettega and D’Anna 2022) and to a process of loss and reborrowing from Modern Standard Arabic (Al-Sharkawi 2014; Versteegh 1984}. Using evidence from a multi-dialectal parallel corpus, I argue that neither of these accounts adequately explains the variation present in the dialects. This study highlights the need to understand the language-specific changes in modern Arabic varieties and the utility of parallel corpora for exploring morphosemantic variation.

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Section: Loss and Borrowing According Tomentioning

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A parallel corpus-based exploration of deflected agreement in Arabic varieties

Rouillier

2024

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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“…Alessa () examines another well‐known phonological feature in Arabic, affrication of dorsal stops. Arabic, in its most conservative form, only has one affricate, [ʤ], but many localized varieties have such affrication processes as /k/>[ʧ], either phonologically conditioned by adjacent high front vowels, as in traditional Jordanian dialects, e.g., that of Salt (Herin ; Herin & Al‐Wer ) and some Palestinian villages, or categorically in other parts of Palestine. Alessa tackles not only the affrication of the voiceless velar fricative /k/ (the result of which, unlike the Palestinian case, is often [ʦ], not [ʧ]) but also the affrication of /ɡ/ to [ʣ].…”

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Current Research on Linguistic Variation in the Arabic‐Speaking World

Horesh

Cotter

2016

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles, and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf. Traditional Arabic dialectology has dealt predominantly with geographical variation. However, in recent years, more nuanced studies of inter‐ and intra‐speaker variation have seen the light of day. In some respects, Arabic sociolinguistics is still lagging behind the field compared to variationist studies in English and other Western languages. On the other hand, the insight presented in studies of Arabic can and should be considered in the course of shaping a crosslinguistic sociolinguistic theory. Variationist studies of Arabic‐speaking speech communities began almost two decades after Labov's pioneering studies of American English and have flourished following the turn of the 21st century. These studies have sparked debates between more quantitatively inclined sociolinguists and those who value qualitative analysis. In reality, virtually no sociolinguistic study of Arabic that includes statistical modeling is free of qualitative insights. They are also not flawless and not always cutting edge methodologically or theoretically, but the field is moving in a positive direction, which will likely lead to the recognition of its significance to sociolinguistics at large.

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Rethinking Agreement in Spoken Arabic: The Question of Gender

Bettega

2019

Ann. Sez. Orient.

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This paper proposes a re-discussion of the question of the number of genders in Arabic. Only varieties of Arabic that display gender distinction in the plural are considered here. In these varieties, it is argued, all nouns fall into one of three distinct agreement classes (or genders), and this in spite of the fact that only two separate genders surface at the morphological level. In other words, a discrepancy exists between the number of target genders and that of controller genders. This situation is not unique to Arabic, and finds parallels in other languages of the world. In addition, the article discusses the role of feminine singular agreement with plural controllers. This type of agreement is not restricted to any particular controller type and always exists in variation with plural agreement. Therefore, it is not to be regarded as a separate agreement category, but rather as an indicator of the referent’s level of individuation. Finally, the last section of the article concentrates on the possible diachronic implications of the analysis proposed above

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From Phonological Variation to Grammatical Change: Depalatalisation of /č/ in Salti

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A parallel corpus-based exploration of deflected agreement in Arabic varieties

A parallel corpus-based exploration of deflected agreement in Arabic varieties

Current Research on Linguistic Variation in the Arabic‐Speaking World

Rethinking Agreement in Spoken Arabic: The Question of Gender

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