Volume 13: Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects: Common Trends - Recent Developments - Diachronic Aspects (original) (raw)
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Esta editorial es miembro de la UNE, lo que garantiza la difusión y comercialización de sus publicaciones a nivel nacional e internacional. Impreso en España Imprime: Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de Zaragoza D.L.: Z xxx-2017 TUNISIAN and Libyan Arabic Dialects : Common Trends -Recent Developments -Diachronic Aspects / Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun (ed.). -Zaragoza : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2017 389 p. ; 24 cm. -(Estudios de Dialectología Árabe ; 13) ISBN 978-84-16933-98-3 1. Lengua árabe-Dialectos. 2. Lengua árabe-Túnez. 3. Lengua árabe-Libia RITT-BENMIMOUN, Veronika 811.411.21'282(611) 811.411.21'282 Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación de esta obra solo puede ser realizada con la autorización de sus titulares, salvo excepción prevista por la ley. Diríjase a CEDRO (Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos, www.cedro.org) si necesita fotocopiar o escanear algún fragmento de esta obra.
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This article reports on a linguistic survey carried out in the Kerkennah Archipelago in Tunisia, where three varieties were identified: two pre-hilalian dialects amongst which one conservative and one more innovative variety and one /g/ dialect spoken in Mellita. The most striking feature of the conservative variety is that it maintains /a/ in unstressed open syllables. Genereally, Kerkennah Arabic lacks raising of medial /ā/ and raises the feminine ending -a to [e].
The necessity of studying Arabic dialects has attracted more attention in the recent years. Qatar University chose to support the growing academic interest and research in the field by hosting the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA) conference on 11 - 13 November 2013. The AIDA10 conference and the tenth volume of AIDA proceedings show that a good deal of change and development in the field is occurring. Fewer papers deal on hitherto unknown dialects as the white spots on the map of Arabic dialects have significantly shrunk. More papers focus on syntactical issues because we now possess more and larger text collections. Papers using "change" in their titles indicate that Arabic dialectology has a long history. Perhaps the time has come to re-examine the studies of the 1940s, 50s and 60s concerning the dialects of certain regions.