Neighborhood and ancestry: variation in the spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria
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| adam_text | NEIGHBORHOOD
AND ANCESTRY
Variation in the spoken
Arabic ofMaiduguri, Nigeria
JONATHAN OWENS
University ofBayreuth
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
AMSTERDAM / PHILADELPHIA
Table of Contents
Table of Contents v
Preface xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
CHAPTER 1 1
Introduction 1
1 1 Lethem: Revenge 1
111 The western variationist model: standard, prestige, vernacular 2
112 X-Ynorms 6
113 Functional diglossia 10
114 Urban neighborhood, ancestry and kinship 11
115 The concept urban 12
116 Summary of book 12
1 2 Data, Methodology, Terminology 13
121 Data 13
122 Methodology and statistical procedures 14
123 Terminology 15
1 3 The Arabs in the Lake Chad Basin 16
1 4 Arabic in Nigeria 21
CHAPTER 2 23
The Peculiar Unity of Nigerian Arabic 23
2 1 -t Perfect 23
2 2 Verb-internal Epenthesis: Making a Rule of an Exception 26
2 3 Splitting Paradigms, Regularly 30
2 4 Irregular Innovation 37
vi TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 3
The Linguistic Variables
3 1 The Variables and Their Variants
311 Three phonological features
3111 Short high vowels: i vs u
3112 *hfie vs *h/?a
3113 Stress: cvcvc/cvcvc
312 Morphological Variation
3121 Feminine singular: -aaya, -a
3122 Preformative vowel: H-L
3123 we , n-/n u
3124 T, ba-/n-
3125 Modal: b-/0
3126 Active participle + object suffix: 0/intrusive -in-
31273 masculine singular object pronoun: -a/-e
3128 3fsg object suffix: -ha/-he
31293 feminine plural object suffix: -hin/-han
313 Summary of 13 indices
3 2 The Variants: Examples •
3 3 Quantity of variation
CHAPTER 4
The Comparative Dialectology of the 13 Linguistic Variables
4 1 Afghani-Nigerian Arabic Isoglosses
411 Afghani Arabic, very rare isoglosses
4111 Phonology
4112 Morphology
412 Rare isoglosses
4 2 The Linguistic Variables and Arabic Dialectology
421 Short high vowels
422 *ha, *?a
423 Stress
424 -a ~ -aaya f singular
425 AP + suffix: intrusive -in-
426 Preformative vowel, a - i
427 Modal b-,0
428 lpl, n-, n-v -M
TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
429 lsg, ba-,n- 80
4 2 10 Object pronoun variants 81
4 3 Cameroonian and Chadian Dialects 82
4 4 Overview of Western Sudanic Arabic Dialects 84
CHAPTER 5 86
Rural Nigerian Arabic 86
5 1 The Villages 86
5 2 Linguistic Summary 94
521 Non-significant differences 94
522 Significant differences 95
523 Ngala or no Ngala? 99
5 3 Detailed Cases 101
531 Individual speakers and migration 101
532 The interpretation of two variable features 102
5 4 Dialect Maps 106
CHAPTER 6 115
Maiduguri and the Basic Sample 115
6 1 Background 115
611 General history of Maiduguri : 115
612 Arabs in Maiduguri 117
6 2 Arabic in the Borno Media 122
6 3 The Sample 122
6 4 Data Collection 135
6 5 The Linguistic Variables in Maiduguri 138
651 An overview 138
652 Non-significant correlations 142
653 Less significant linguistic variables 142
654 Non-significant extra-linguistic features 143
6 6 Significant Extra-linguistic Correlations , 146
661 Residential area 146
662 Ancestry 150
663 Isolates 154
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6 7 Symmetrical Variation: Individuals, Linguistic Purity and Majority
Variants 155
671 The linguist s intervention 155
672 Purity index 158
673 Majority index 159
CHAPTER 7 167
Urban and Rural: towards a characterization of neo-ancestral norms 167
7 1 Ancestral Homeland, Urban Residence 167
7 2 An Urban Effect 168
721 Tabular comparison 168
722 Patterns of contrast 173
723 Rural-Maiduguri vs Maiduguri internal contrasts 174
724 The linguistic variables, a typology 178
7241 Asymmetric target: singular object suffixes (-e/-a,
he/ha) 178
72423 Flexible targets: asymmetry and complementarity 181
7243 Symmetric targets 183
7244 Complementary targets: i_AP, i_I 187
7245 Types of targets 188
7 3 Consistency Indices 189
731 Purity 189
732 The imperfect paradigm • 190
7 4 Summary • 196
CHAPTER 8 199
Non-Corpus Data 199
8 1 Two Tests 199
8 2 Plural Patterns 201
8 3 Feminine Singular Variation 204
8 4 Summary 204
CHAPTER 9 205
Variation and Language Attitudes 205
91A Matched-Guise Test 205
911 The test 205
912 Results 208
913 From perception to folk dialect 215
TABLE OF CONTENTS ix
9 2 Language Attitudes 216
921 Domains of use 216
922 Mixed marriages 217
923 Multilinguality 219
924 Dialect assessment 221
9 3 Caveats and Conclusion 229
CHAPTER 10 231
Linguistic Variation and Socio-Politics 231
10 1 Macro-linguistic and Socio-political Factors 233
10 2 Demography, Genealogy and Linguistic Variation 237
10 2 1 Arabic clans and marriage 237
10 2 2 Polygamy 241
10 2 3 Itinerant scholars 242
10 2 4 An extended compound 243
CHAPTER 11 247
Setting and Linguistic Variation 247
CHAPTER 12 258
Three Micro Studies 258
12 1 Linguistic Network Analysis 258
12 2 Recording in Two Residences and One Neighborhood 261
12 3 A Household: An Isle of Purity 262
12 4 A Neighborhood 272
12 5 An Extended Compound: Kin-lects 278
12 6 Individual Variables and Types of Variation 290
12 6 1 i_AP: pure variation 290
12 6 2 i_3msg, i_3fsg: asymmetric varieties? 291
12 6 3 Fixed and flexible targets 292
12 6 4 Two asymmetric variables: i_G, laryngeal deletion 294
CHAPTER 13 296
Expanding the Typology of Urban Linguistic Variation 296
X TABLE OF CONTENTS
Appendix I: Arabic Texts 302
Appendix II 380
1 (Chapter 8) Test Words 380
2 (Chapter 9) Matched Guise Text 380
3 Actor Information 381
3 1 (Chapter 12) Genealogical trees, Extended Compound 381
3 2 (Chapter 12) Summary of actors from Gwange Group and
Extended Compound 382
3 3 Gwange group 384
Bibliography 385
Index of Subjects 390
Index of Names 394
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