Lameen Souag

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lameen Souag plays a role.

Journal

Articles

Souag, Lameen 2018 Arabic-Berber-Songhay contact and the grammaticalisation of ‘thing’Arabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 53–71 | Chapter
The development of double negation in Arabic has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The striking parallels between negation in Berber and North African Arabic invite an explanation in contact terms, and such explanations have indeed been debated. However, in addition to their use in… read more
The intense Berber-Songhay language contact that produced Northern Songhay cannot be understood adequately without taking into account the existence of a Northern Songhay language outside the Azawagh valley — Korandjé, in Algeria — showing few, if any, signs of Tuareg contact. This article proposes… read more
Souag, Lameen 2014 The development of addressee agreement on demonstrativesDiachronica 31:4, pp. 535–563 | Article
The person-oriented nature of a demonstrative system can be marked explicitly by incorporating person markers into demonstratives. When these distinguish gender or number, this can lead to an unusual type of allocutivity: addressee agreement on medials. The latter development is… read more