Tables
A Transcription of Arabic characters
xiv
B Additional signs used in transcription
xvi
C Abbreviations used in glossing
xviii
2.1 The Arabic consonantal system
23
6.1 Prefix conjugation of
yaktubu/kataba
‘to write’
90
6.2
Suffix conjugation of
yaktubu/kataba
‘to write’
90
6.3 Nominal endings of
jamīl
‘beautiful’ 92
6.4
The verbal measures
96
7.1 The endings of nouns and imperfect verbs
112
8.1 Genitive exponents in Arabic dialects
145
8.2 Aspectual markers in Arabic dialects
145
11.1 The verbal paradigm in Najdī Arabic
194
11.2 The verbal paradigm in Damascene Arabic
200
11.3
The distribution of
gilit
and
qǝltu
dialects
202
11.4 The verbal paradigm of Muslim Baġdādī
203
11.5 The verbal paradigm in Cairene Arabic
210
11.6 The verbal
paradigm of Moroccan Arabic
214
11.7 The formation of the passive in Ḥassāniyya
215
12.1 Approved patterns of word formation in Modern Standard Arabic
230
13.1 The five levels of Egyptian Arabic according to Badawī (1973)
244
13.2 Distribution of /q/ in spoken Egyptian
245
14.1 Language proficiency of literates in North Africa
267
14.2 Preferred language varieties
in the media in Morocco
268
15.1 The verbal paradigm of the loan verb
kanta
‘to sing’
(< Italian
cantare
) in Maltese
279
15.2 The verbal
paradigm in Nigerian Arabic
289