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Synchronic and diachronic observations on verbal negation in the Arabic dialects of the Fezzān


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DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitarabling.68.0063




The present papers analyzes verbal negation in Fezzani Arabic, drawing on the texts collected by Philippe MARÇAIS during the 1950s. The history of negation in the Arabic dialects represents one of the most interesting fields of investigation for linguists, featuring a case of the so-called Jespersen's cycle. Fezzani Arabic is in the second stage of the cycle, in which a circumfixal negation has become the most commonly employed pattern. Probably due to its relative isolation, however, it preserves vestiges of the older prefixal negation in at least two contexts unknown to other Arabic dialects. Similar phenomena are found in a number of distant and unrelated languages, suggesting a common path of evolution from stage I to stage II of Jespersen's cycle.

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