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). 

• arabic language and linguistics
• berber languages
• language change
• language contact