Imed Louhichi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Imed Louhichi plays a role.
Articles
2024 What can the stories of a frog tell us about motion event description in Gulf Pidgin Arabic? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:2, pp. 313–338 | Article
Motion event description has received little attention in contact linguistics as compared to other branches of linguistics. To address this gap, I provide an overview of the grammatical and lexical resources for the encoding of motion events in Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA). 10 GPA speakers narrated… read more
2023 On the etymology and distribution of verb forms in Arabic-based pidgins: A usage-based approach Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
In this paper, we add to the body of existing literature on Arabic-based pidgins. We focus on the verbal system because the structure of this phrasal category and how it is used in discourse remain inconclusive. For instance, while some claim these speakers prefer the imperfective form which is… read more