A Phonological Analysis of English Loanwords Inflected With Arabic Morphemes in Urban Jordanian Spoken Arabic
This article tackles a phenomenon in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA) where young individuals (mainly females) in Amman, the capital of Jordan, add the Arabic suffix - ɪk , which is glossed as second female singular or as a possessive pronoun, to English loanwords to sound more “modern,” for example, “I...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-04-01
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| Series: | SAGE Open |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019841927 |