The verb kan ‘be’ in Moroccan Arabic

AbstractThis paper investigates, from a cross-cultural pragmatics framework, the motivations and reasons which induce Moroccans in particular, and Arabs in general, to invoke Qur’anic verses and religious lexicons in their daily politeness discourse. By focusing on the speech act of greeting, this study attempts to show that greetings are ordinary day-to-day events, which often encapsulate a lot of different cultural values that may cause misunderstandings. Based on data collected from natural interaction between Arabs and Germans, Arabs seem inclined to show politeness when greeting one another by using religious vocabulary and giving religious praises. In addition, the use of religion as a politeness strategy appears to function as a way of protecting the self-image of both the speaker and the hearer. Furthermore, the findings of this study also reveal that by resorting to the use of this politeness strategy, Moroccans seem to reflect their firm belief and the importance they attach to the Qur’an and, more especially, to the question of fate and destiny in Islam. As a result, it is not the linguistic expression itself but rather the pragmatic function of the utterance that seems to determine the use and interpretation of politeness strategies in (Moroccan) Arabic.

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Use of the Moroccan Arabic version of mini-linguistic state examination (MLSE) to study language disorders in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Journal of the Neurological Sciences ◽

10.1016/j.jns.2021.118992 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 429 ◽

pp. 118992

Author(s):

Mohamed Taiebine ◽

Samir Diouny ◽

Mustapha El Alaoui Faris ◽

Maria Benabdeljlil ◽

Khadija Al Zemmouri

Keyword(s):

Alzheimer’S Disease ◽

Alzheimer's Disease ◽

Language Disorders ◽

Arabic Version ◽

Moroccan Arabic ◽

State Examination

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Syllable structure and vowel/zero alternations in Moroccan Arabic and Berber

The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics ◽

10.4324/9781315392981-9 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 168-180

Author(s):

Mohamed Lahrouchi

Keyword(s):

Syllable Structure ◽

Moroccan Arabic

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Conditionals in Moroccan Arabic

Journal of Universal Language ◽

10.22425/jul.2019.20.1.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 1-38

Author(s):

Abdelhakim Boubekri

Keyword(s):

Moroccan Arabic

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Sound Correspondences of Modern Standard Arabic Moroccan Arabic and Najdi Arabic

Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization ◽

10.14421/skijic.v3i2.1905 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 27

Author(s):

Darsita Suparno ◽

Ulil Abshar ◽

M. Wildan ◽

Tri Pujiati

Keyword(s):

Standard Procedure ◽

Modern Standard Arabic ◽

Parts Of Speech ◽

Standard Arabic ◽

Phonetic Similarity ◽

Moroccan Arabic ◽

Structural Linguistics ◽

Najdi Arabic ◽

Basic Vocabulary ◽

Modern Standard

This paper studies the process of sound correspondences that occur in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), Moroccan Arabic (MAR), and Najdi Arabic (NAR). It attempts to find answers for the following questions: a) What are the identical word pairs, words couples that have a phonemic correspondence, a phonetic similarity, and a pair of words that contains difference of one phoneme, b) What are the process of morphophonemic in the form of assimilation, metathesis, and epenthesis. It is addressed to portray the process of morphophonemic assimilation, metathesis and epenthesis in three Arabic languages using Crowley’s theory. This study used 207 of Morris Swadesh's basic vocabulary as the key standard procedure for collecting data. The criteria adopted to analyze the data were orthographic, sound-change, phonological, and morpheme contrast. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The source of the data was basic-word vocabulary. The data were gathered from three dictionaries as sources to get information. The data were analyzed by using structural linguistics, especially phonology, morphology, and semantics. This investigation informed several aspects of findings such as identifying prefixes, suffixes, assimilation, metathesis, and epenthesis. Using the Swadesh vocabulary list, the results of this study found 207 vocabularies for each language. By analyzing parts of speech, it was found that these vocabularies can be classified into five-word classes, namely, nouns, pronouns, verb, adjectives, adverbs, and determiners.

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