Arabic and contact-incuded change
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 33015
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Language Science Press
- ISBN
- 9783961102518
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/235
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume is the cornerstone output of the AHRC-funded project Arabic and contact-induced language change (AH/P014089/1). It is published by Language Science Press, an open-access publisher of monographs in linguistics. In the first eight months after publication, it was downloaded over 6800 times from the Language Science Press website (https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/langsci-press/2021/02/18/achievements-2020/).
This volume is a single coherent work of 30 chapters averaging about 8000 words, each of which was commissioned by the editors from experts on particular varieties of Arabic that have undergone contact influence from other languages, or on languages that have undergone contact influence from varieties of Arabic. The chapters follow a common structure, a unified approach to the transcription and glossing of Arabic, and, where appropriate, adopt a common theoretical framework for the analysis of contact-induced change, derived from that of Van Coetsem (1988; 2000) , and set out in detail in Lucas (2012; 2015).
The volume provides a collaborative synthesis of the diverse outcomes of contacts between Arabic and other languages, thus rectifying the situation prior to publication, whereby this information remained inaccessible to non-specialists, and thus played little part in crosslinguistic work on contact-induced change. Authors were asked to provide a state-of-the-art summary of the relevant contact-induced changes in the varieties covered in their chapter, including original data and research where appropriate.
Lucas’s contribution as co-editor and initiator of the project/volume, as well as his (co-)authorship of three chapters within the volume, are being collectively submitted here as a single output. These three chapters are: i) the introduction, which lays out the aims, scope, structure, and framework of the volume; ii) a chapter on contact-induced changes in Maltese; and iii) a chapter on contact-induced change across Arabic varieties in the domain of negation.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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