Rif Berber: From Senhaja to Iznasen. A qualitative and quantitative approach to classification
| Autor: | Mena B. Lafkioui |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes sur les Réflexivités-Fonds Yan Thomas (LIER-FYT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language 05 social sciences diffusion Language and Linguistics Linguistics comparative linguistics computational linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Variation (linguistics) Geography Berber historical linguistics classification geolinguistics Historical linguistics algorithmic classification 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics 0305 other medical science Comparative linguistics variational sociolinguistics |
| Zdroj: | Dialectologia et Geolinguistica Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, De Gruyter, 2020, 28, pp.117-156 |
| ISSN: | 0942-4040 1867-0903 |
| Popis: | By combining qualitative (synchronic and diachronic) and quantitative (algorithmic) approaches, this study examines the nature, structure, and dynamics of the linguistic variation attested in Berber of the Rif area (North, Northwest, and Northeast Morocco). Based on a cross-level corpus of data obtained from the Atlas linguistique des varieties berbères du Rif (Lafkioui 2007) and from numerous linguistic, sociolinguistic, and ethnographic fieldwork investigations in the area since 1992, this study shows that these Berber varieties form a language continuum with the following five stable core aggregates, which cut across administrative and political borders: Western Rif Berber, West-Central Rif Berber, Central Rif Berber, East-Central Rif Berber, and Eastern Rif Berber. Furthermore, data mining studies made it possible to objectively identify the principal aggregate discriminators of the Rif Berber continuum, which are dealt with in the study. A special focus in the article is put on the interplay between system-internal and system-external parameters for the selection, diffusion, and transformation of variants in Rif Berber. |
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