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Attrition and revival in Awjila Berber
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In: ISSN: 1638-9808 ; EISSN: 1765-3126 ; Corpus ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376144 ; Corpus, Bases, Corpus, Langage - UMR 7320, 2015, Constitution et usage de corpus en linguistique berbère, 14, pp.23-58 ; http://corpus.revues.org/ (2015)
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International audience ; Awjila Berber is a highly endangered Berber variety spoken in the East of Libya. Only minimal material is available on the language. This is unfortunate, as that material reveals that the language is in some respects very archaic and in others grammatically unique, and as such is of particular comparative and historical interest. Fieldwork has been impossible for decades due to the political situation, leading to uncertainty about whether the language was even still spoken. With the rising popularity of Facebook, however, more and more Berber speakers are taking to Facebook to converse in their own language. Several inhabitants of Awjila have accordingly set up a Facebook page Ašal=ənnax "our village" where they communicate with one another in the Awjila language. The authors have collected a corpus of the conversations on this Facebook page, which have been transcribed and translated. Analysis of this corpus adds substantially to our knowledge of Awjili and its situation. The posters' discussion of their motivations for using the language cast light on the language's prospects for survival, while the posts themselves yield many previously unattested words. At the same time, the corpus provides a case study in language contact. Examination of the grammatical and lexical features of this “Facebook-Awjili” language reveals that these speakers' usage is heavily influenced by Arabic, showing extensive language attrition absent from earlier data. The resulting constructions show parallels with other contact-heavy varieties, notably Siwi. In both respects, this study casts light upon the uses and limits of social media as a source of linguistic material.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; Awjila; Berber; berbère; Contact de langues; Endangered language; Facebook; Language attrition; Language contact; Langue en danger; Libya; Libye
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URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376144
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Verbal infection interference among heritage speakers of Awjili Berber
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In: Workshop on Morphosyntactic interference in heritage languages ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01482553 ; Workshop on Morphosyntactic interference in heritage languages, University of the West of England, Jun 2015, Bristol, United Kingdom ; https://uwelingo.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/morphosyntactic-interference-in-heritage-languages-our-workshop/ (2015)
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Non-verbal utterance in German and Kabyle (Berber) ; L'énoncé averbal en allemand et en kabyle (berbère)
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In: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01522880 ; Linguistique. Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. Français. ⟨NNT : 2015USPCA083⟩ (2015)
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Tonal association in Tashlhiyt Berber: evidence from polar questions and contrastive statements
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In: ISSN: 0952-6757 ; EISSN: 1469-8188 ; Phonology ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01287651 ; Phonology, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015, 32 (02), ⟨10.1017/S0952675715000147⟩ (2015)
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QUESTIONS AMAZIGHES (TACHLHIT) À L'INTERFACE DE LA PHONÉTIQUE ET DE LA PHONOLOGIE
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In: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01287671 ; Linguistique. Univeristé Denis Diderot Paris 7, 2015 (2015)
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The Berber of Siwa: documentation, syntax and semantics ; Le berbère de Siwa : documentation, syntaxe et sémantique
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In: https://hal-ephe.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01794622 ; Linguistique. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 2015. Français (2015)
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The Tuareg Alphabet ; L'alphabet touareg ; L'alphabet touareg: Histoire d'un vieil alphabet africain
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In: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01130058 ; CNRS Editions, 2015, Collection: Le passé recomposé, Sophie A. de Beaune, 978-2-271-08339-5 ; http://www.cnrseditions.fr/sociologie-ethnologie-anthropologie/7060-l-alphabet-touareg.html (2015)
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The Development of Dative Agreement in Berber ; The Development of Dative Agreement in Berber: Beyond Nominal Hierarchies
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In: ISSN: 0079-1636 ; EISSN: 1467-968X ; Transactions of the Philological Society ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376203 ; Transactions of the Philological Society, Wiley, 2015, 113 (2), pp.213-248. ⟨10.1111/1467-968X.12049⟩ ; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-968X.12049/abstract (2015)
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The timing of geminate consonants in Tarifit Berber
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In: 1st International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01258309 ; 1st International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, Oct 2015, Algiers, Algeria (2015)
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Diffusion in North Africa – What are our models hiding?
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In: Journée d’études de la SLP “Diffusion, implantation, convergence” ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01482568 ; Journée d’études de la SLP “Diffusion, implantation, convergence” , La Société de Linguistique de Paris, Jan 2015, Paris, France ; http://www.slp-paris.com/spip.php?article16 (2015)
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Le parler de Sokna (Libye) à la lumière de nouvelles données
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In: Les trente ans de la revue Études et Documents Berbères ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01482495 ; Les trente ans de la revue Études et Documents Berbères, MSH Paris Nord, Nov 2015, Saint-Denis la Plaine, France ; http://idefi-creatic.net/fr/colloque-international-les-trente-ans-de-la-revue-etudes-et-documents-berberes/ (2015)
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Cross-linguistic comparability in CorpAfroAs
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In: Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01514883 ; Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, 2015 (2015)
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Archaic and innovative Islamic prayer names around the Sahara
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In: ISSN: 0041-977X ; EISSN: 1474-0699 ; Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376184 ; Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015, 78 (2), pp.357-374. ⟨10.1017/S0041977X15000075⟩ ; https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/archaic-and-innovative-islamic-prayer-names-around-the-sahara/DC8C4C7313F1A0A023BD7BD94ADF5FD1 (2015)
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Non-Tuareg Berber and the Genesis of Nomadic Northern Songhay
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In: ISSN: 0167-6164 ; EISSN: 1613-3811 ; Journal of African Languages and Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376179 ; Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, De Gruyter, 2015, 36 (1), pp.121-143. ⟨10.1515/jall-2015-0004⟩ ; https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jall.2015.36.issue-1/jall-2015-0004/jall-2015-0004.xml (2015)
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Sokna re-examined ; Sokna re-examined: Two unedited Sokna Berber vocabularies from 1850
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In: Studi Africanistici, Quaderni di Studi Berberi e Libico-berberi ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01392498 ; Studi Africanistici, Quaderni di Studi Berberi e Libico-berberi, 2015, La lingua nella vita e la vita della lingua. Itinerari e percorsi degli studi berberi. Miscellanea per il Centenario di studi berberi a "L'Orientale" di Napoli. Scritti in honore di Francesco Beguinot, 4, pp.179-206 ; http://www.unior.it/ateneo/9581/1/quaderni-di-studi-berberi-e-libico-berberi.html (2015)
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Explaining Korandjé ; Explaining Korandjé: Language contact, plantations, and the trans-Saharan trade
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In: ISSN: 0920-9034 ; Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376165 ; Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, John Benjamins Publishing, 2015, 30 (2), pp.189-224. ⟨10.1075/jpcl.30.2.01sou⟩ ; https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jpcl/main (2015)
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Phonology at the interfaces: On the structure of roots and temples in Amazighe (Berber) ; La phonologie aux interfaces: de la structure des racines et des gabarits en amazighe
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01133256 ; Linguistique. Université Paris 8, 2015 (2015)
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Attrition and revival in Awjila Berber
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In: ISSN: 1638-9808 ; EISSN: 1765-3126 ; Corpus ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01376144 ; Corpus, Bases, Corpus, Langage - UMR 7320, 2015, Constitution et usage de corpus en linguistique berbère, 14, pp.23-58 ; http://corpus.revues.org/ (2015)
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Categorització semàntica de les parts del cos en català i en amazic: un estudi comparatiu
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In: TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) (2015)
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