Arabic and contact-induced change

Christopher Lucas Stefano Manfredi

Synopsis

This volume offers a synthesis of current expertise on contact-induced change in Arabic and its neighbours, with thirty chapters written by many of the leading experts on this topic. Its purpose is to showcase the current state of knowledge regarding the diverse outcomes of contacts between Arabic and other languages, in a format that is both accessible and useful to Arabists, historical linguists, and students of language contact.

Chapters

Introduction

Christopher Lucas, Stefano Manfredi

Chapter 1
Pre-Islamic Arabic

Ahmad Al-Jallad

Chapter 2
Classical and Modern Standard Arabic

Marijn van Putten

Chapter 3
Arabic in Iraq, Syria, and southern Turkey

Stephan Procházka

Chapter 4
Khuzestan Arabic

Bettina Leitner

Chapter 5
Anatolian Arabic

Faruk Akkuş

Chapter 6
Cypriot Maronite Arabic

Mary Ann Walter

Chapter 7
Nigerian Arabic

Jonathan Owens

Chapter 8
Maghrebi Arabic

Adam Benkato

Chapter 9
Moroccan Arabic

Jeffrey Heath

Chapter 10
Andalusi Arabic

Ángeles Vicente

Chapter 11
Ḥassāniyya Arabic

Catherine Taine-Cheikh

Chapter 12
Maltese

Christopher Lucas, Slavomír Čéplö

Chapter 13
Arabic in the diaspora

Luca D’Anna

Chapter 14
Arabic pidgins and creoles

Andrei Avram

Chapter 15
Modern South Arabian languages

Simone Bettega, Fabio Gasparini

Chapter 16
Neo-Aramaic

Eleanor Coghill

Chapter 17
Berber

Lameen Souag

Chapter 18
Beja

Martine Vanhove

Chapter 19
Iranian languages

Dénes Gazsi

Chapter 20
Kurdish

Ergin Öpengin

Chapter 21
Northern Domari

Bruno Herin

Chapter 22
Jerusalem Domari

Yaron Matras

Chapter 23
Mediterranean Lingua Franca

Joanna Nolan

Chapter 24
New-dialect formation: The Amman dialect

Enam Al-Wer

Chapter 25
Dialect contact and phonological change

William M. Cotter

Chapter 26
Contact and variation in Arabic intonation

Sam Hellmuth

Chapter 27
Contact-induced grammaticalization between Arabic dialects

Thomas Leddy-Cecere

Chapter 28
Contact and calquing

Stefano Manfredi

Chapter 29
Contact and the expression of negation

Christopher Lucas

Chapter 30

Christopher Lucas

Christopher Lucas is Senior Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics at SOAS University of London. His research centres on the description and analysis of grammatical change and linguistic variation, with a particular focus on Arabic, Maltese, and varieties of English. Much of his work has centred on issues connected with negation and definiteness, as well as the development of models of contact-induced change, with articles in journals such as Diachronica, Journal of Linguistics and English Language and Linguistics, and edited volumes with Oxford University Press and John Benjamins.

Stefano Manfredi

Stefano Manfredi is a junior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (SeDyL, UMR8202). His research focuses on language contact, pidgin and creole languages, typological and historical dialectology of Arabic, and corpus linguistics. Most of his publications deal with Arabic-based creoles and Sudanic Arabic dialects. He recently published a grammar of Juba Arabic (2017, Peeters) and co-edited a collective volume on language contact involving Arabic (2018, John Benjamins).