Wafi Alshammari
List of John Benjamins publications in which Wafi Alshammari is involved.
Articles
2022 Numeral form selection and accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic Language, Interaction and Acquisition 13:1, pp. 29–62 | Article
This study deals with the creation of cardinal numerals and accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) as it is spoken among foreign workers (FWs) and native Saudi Arabic speakers (Ss) in Saudi Arabia. Under the Feature Pool Hypothesis (Mufwene, 2001) and the Mutual Accommodation Theory (Thomason… read more
2019 Diminutive and augmentative formation in northern Najdi/Ḥā’ili Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017, Khalfaoui, Amel and Youssef A. Haddad (eds.), pp. 51–74 | Chapter
The main goal of this paper is to make known an unusual, if not unique, morphological augmentative found in one variety of northern Najdi (Saudi) Arabic, specifically the Ḥā’ili variety as mainly spoken by members of the Shammar tribe. A brief description of the pattern can be found in Assuwaida… read more