Publications

Publication details [#30288]

Owens, Jonathan. 1993. A grammar of Nigerian Arabic. (Semitica Viva 10). Harrassowitz Verlag. 276 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect2 | grammar1 | language and culture | meaning | verb

Language as a subject

Arabic, Nigerian

Annotation

This comprehensive grammatical description of Nigerian Arabic, the least known of all Arabic dialects, extensively discusses verb morphology, and also presents some syntactic features associated with them and various semantic shades of meaning.

Reviewed by

Al-Ani, Salman H. 1996. Review of $A grammar of Nigerian Arabic.