Borrowing Routines In Berber

Résumé: In this paper we intend to analyse some cases of borrowing routines Berber as a minority variety spoken in Oran. This will be dealt with from different angles. The process of borrowing has already been observed and analysed in a previous paper. The analysis was conducted at two levels: the morpho-syntactic and the semantic levels. The lexical level was left aside because of its importance in the borrowing process in general and a whole paper should therefore be devoted lexical borrowing as it represents for us one of the most productive types of borrowing in Berber. We shall thus concentrate in the present paper on the processes of lexical borrowing applying to nouns and verbs. These two classes are the ones in which the highest borrowing rates have been noticed. The informants on which the present study is based are Mzabi and Kabyle speakers living in Oran. The corpus is composed of several recorded interactions between them.

Publié dans la revue: Revue Maghrébine des Langues