Research project
How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change
This project investigates the influence that Arabic (esp. dialectal Arabic) has had on the Berber languages of Northern Africa.
- Duration
- 2009 - 2013
- Contact
- Harry Stroomer
- Funding
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NWO Vrije Competitie
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This project deals with the influence Arabic (esp. dialectal Arabic) has had on the Berber languages of Northern Africa. It will provide an analysis of the variation and lack there-of in contact-induced change under similar sociolinguistic and linguistic circumstances. The sub-projects involve a typology of language contact phenomena in Northern Berber (post-doctoral researcher), a description of heavily Arabicized Ghomara Berber (Northern Morocco, PhD) and a contrastive study of semantic structures in an Arabic and a Berber variety of North-Eastern Morocco (PhD).