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The Attributive Possessive in Moroccan Arabic Spoken by Young Bilinguals in the Netherlands and Their Peers in Morocco
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Boumans, Louis – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
Moroccan Arabic has two competing syntactic constructions for possessive marking: a synthetic one and an analytic one. The distribution of these constructions is investigated in semi-spontaneous narratives (frog stories) from four Moroccan cities and from the diaspora community in the Netherlands. This distribution is found to depend very much on…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Linguistic Borrowing, Dialects