Catherine Taine-Cheikh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Catherine Taine-Cheikh is involved.
2018 Condition, interrogation and exception: Remarks on particles in Berber Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives, Tosco, Mauro (ed.), pp. 105–130 | Chapter
Comparison of the different Berber dialects shows that there are many shared characteristics, particularly typological ones. The degree of similarity varies, however, depending on the element. Conjunctions have been recognized as a class with very little similarity among the varieties.
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2018 Ḥassāniyya Arabic in contact with Berber: The case of quadriliteral verbs Arabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 135–159 | Chapter
Generally speaking, it is at the edges of the Arabic speaking world that one finds the most borrowings and where the influence of contact on the internal development of Arabic is most visible. Although Mauritanian Ḥassāniyya is an exception to this general trend (Taine-Cheikh 1994, 2007), the… read more
2018 Expressiveness and evaluation in Arabic: The singular development of the diminutive in Ḥassāniyya Arabic Morphology and emotions across the world's languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 81–113 | Article
Old Arabic had many expressive derived forms: firstly, the forms with radical repetition, consonant reduplication and/or vowel lengthening; secondly, the forms with prefixes, suffixes or infixes. Most of these formatives survived in the Arabic dialects, but Arabic scholars generally focus on… read more
2016 The Aorist in Zenaga Berber and the Imperfective in two Arabic dialects: A comparative viewpoint Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues, Guentchéva, Zlatka (ed.), pp. 465–502 | Article
In Berber studies, it is often considered – at least in French-speaking literature – that there is a specific verbal category named Aorist. This category is not supposed to exist in the Semitic family, which is also part of the Afro-Asiatic phylum. However, the Arabic prefixal conjugation shows… read more
2010 The role of the Berber deictic and TAM markers in dependent clauses in Zenaga Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics, Bril, Isabelle (ed.), pp. 355–398 | Article
The deictic ad fulfills many functions in Mauritanian Berber (demonstrative, copula, connector, injunctive particle, etc.). Most of these uses are found more or less in all Berber languages. However, Zenaga differs markedly on several points: ad is not used as a preverb to express future; on the… read more