Enam Al-Wer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Enam Al-Wer is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2950-1806 | E‑ISSN 2950‑1792
Book series
2022 Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019, Ali, Abdel-Khalig and Atiqa Hachimi (eds.), pp. 27–50 | Chapter
The unbound feminine ending for nouns and adjectives in Arabic has two main forms: an a-type vowel and an e-type vowel. We examine processes of language change vis-à-vis this morphophonemic variable in four dialects, two in the Levant and two in the Arabian Peninsula. We show that somewhat… read more
2016 Lateral fricative ḍād in Tihāmat Qaḥtān: A quantitative sociolinguistic investigation Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013, Davis, Stuart and Usama Soltan (eds.), pp. 151–169 | Article
This article presents the results of a sociolinguistic investigation of the phonemic status of the emphatic lateral fricative [ɮʕ] in the dialects of Tihamat Qaḥtān, Saudi Arabia. The study is based on empirical data, obtained through sociolinguistic interviews, analyzed quantitatively, and… read more
2014 Yod-dropping in b-imperfect verb forms
in Amman Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012, Khamis, Reem and Karen Froud (eds.), pp. 29–44 | Article
This article presents analysis of data from the emerging dialect of Amman within the framework of ‘dialect contact’ and ‘new dialect formation’ (Trudgill, 1986, 2004). In particular, it focuses on the conjugation of 3rd person singular and plural verb forms with or without /j/. The dialect of Amman… read more
2003 New dialect formation: The focusing of -kum in Amman Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 59–67 | Article