Adam Benkato

List of John Benjamins publications in which Adam Benkato is involved.

Journal

Arabic Linguistics

Edited by Enam Al-Wer, Lina Choueiri and Uri Horesh

ISSN 2950-1806 | E‑ISSN 2950‑1792

Article

Benkato, Adam 2023 Towards an account of historical new-dialect formation in northern Africa: The case of sibilant merging in Arabic dialects Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020, Azaz, Mahmoud (ed.), pp. 13–32 | Chapter

The two “waves” which are held to have brought Arabic to northern Africa are typically assumed to have been homogenous entities which subsequently developed in situ into the numerous dialects of the modern period. This paper argues that the complex distribution of phonological variants seen in… read more