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1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Impact, studies in language and society ; v. 4
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Impact, studies in language and society ; v. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-389) and index. |
| Contents |
""NEIGHBORHOOD AND ANCESTRY""; ""Editorial page ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""CHAPTER 1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Lethem: Revenge""; ""1.1.1 The western variationist model: standard, prestige, vernacular ""; ""1.1.2 X-Y norms ""; ""1.1.3 Functional diglossia""; ""1.1.4 Urban neighborhood, ancestry and kinship""; ""1.1.5 The concept ""urban""""; ""1.1.6 Summary of book""; ""1.2 Data, Methodology, Terminology""; ""1.2.1 Data""; ""1.2.2 Methodology and statistical procedures""; ""1.2.3 Terminology"" |
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""1.3 The Arabs in the Lake Chad Basin""""1.4 Arabic in Nigeria""; ""CHAPTER 2. The Peculiar Unity of Nigerian Arabic""; ""2.1 -t Perfect""; ""2.2 Verb-internal Epenthesis: Making a Rule of an Exception""; ""2.3 Splitting Paradigms, Regularly""; ""2.4 Irregular Innovation""; ""CHAPTER 3. The Linguistic Variables""; ""3.1 The Variables and Their Variants""; ""3.1.1 Three phonological features""; ""3.1.1.1 Short high v owels: i vs. u""; ""3.1.1.2 *h/? e vs. *h/? a""; ""3.1.1.3 Stress: cvcvc/cvcvc""; ""3.1.2 Morphological Variation""; ""3.1.2.1 Feminine singular: -aaya, -á "" |
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""3.1.2.2 Preformative vowel: H-L""""3.1.2.3 'we' ,n-/n...u""; ""3.1.2.4 ' I', ba-/n-""; ""3.1.2.5 Modal: b-/Ã?""; ""3.1.2.6 Active participle + object suffix: 0/intrusive -in-""; ""3.1.2.7 3 masculine singular object pronoun: -a/-e""; ""3.1.2.8 3fsg object suffix: -ha/-he""; ""3.1.2.9 3 feminine plural object suffix: -hin/-han""; ""3.1.3 Summary of 13 indices""; ""3.2 The Variants: Examples""; ""3.3 Quantity of variation""; ""CHAPTER 4. The Comparative Dialectology of the 13 Linguistic Variables""; ""4.1 Afghani-Nigerian Arabic Isoglosses""; ""4.1.1 Afghani Arabic, very rare isoglosses"" |
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""4.1.1.1 Phonology""""4.1. 1.2 Morphology""; ""4.1.2 Rare isoglosses""; ""4.2 The Linguistic Variables and Arabic Dialectology""; ""4.2.1 Short high vowels""; ""4.2.2 *Äa, *? a""; ""4.2.3 Stress""; ""4.2.4 -a ~ -aaya f. singular""; ""4.2.5 AP + suffix: intrusive -in-""; ""4.2.6 Preformative vowel, a ~ i""; ""4.2.7 Modal b-, Ã?""; ""4.2.8 lpl, n-, n-... -u""; ""4.2.9 lsg, ba-, n-""; ""4.2.10 Object pronoun variants""; ""4.3 Cameroonian and Chadian Dialects""; ""4.4 Overview of Western Sudanic Arabic Dialects""; ""CHAPTER 5. Rural Nigerian Arabic""; ""5.1 The Villages"" |
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""5.2 Linguistic Summary""""5.2.1 Non-significant differences""; ""5.2.2 Significant differences""; ""5.2.3 Ngala or no Ngala?""; ""5.3 Detailed Cases""; ""5.3.1 Individual speakers and migration""; ""5.3.2 The interpretation of two variable features""; ""5.4 Dialect Maps""; ""CHAPTER 6. Maiduguri and the Basic Sample""; ""6.1 Background""; ""6.1.1 General history of Maiduguri""; ""6.1.2 Arabs in Maiduguri""; ""6.2 Arabic in the Borno Media""; ""6.3 The Sample""; ""6.4 Data Collection""; ""6.5 The Linguistic Variables in Maiduguri""; ""6.5.1 An overview"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arabic language -- Dialects -- Nigeria -- Maiduguri.
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Arabic language -- Dialects. |
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Nigeria -- Maiduguri. |
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Sociolinguistics -- Nigeria -- Maiduguri.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Maiduguri (Nigeria) -- Languages.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Owens, Jonathan. Neighborhood and ancestry. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©1998 902721834X (OCoLC)40846163 |
| ISBN |
9789027275615 (electronic book) |
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9027275610 (electronic book) |
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902721834X |
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9789027218346 |
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1556198531 |
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9781556198533 |
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