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urn:uuid:db3a8d31-b2eb-4612-aed9-9075d6d93558 03 15 9781805112532 00 EB E107 10 10 02 26326914 01 02 23 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 A Grammar of the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Gabes 1 A01 Wiktor Gębski Dr Wiktor Gębski is a linguist specialising in Arabic dialectology and Hebrew. Hailing from Poland, he completed his BA and MA in Hebrew and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Warsaw. Between 2014 and 2016 he pursued Hebrew and Arabic studies at the University of Tel Aviv as a scholar of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2022 he gained his PhD from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. His doctoral dissertation The Jewish Dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia): Phonology, Morphology, Syntax was written under the supervision of Professor Geoffrey Khan. It entailed documentation of this endangered North-African Arabic dialect. The project was based on extensive fieldwork in Israel and France, during which Dr Gębski recorded the last native speakers of Jewish Gabes. For his work towards the preservation of Jewish linguistic heritage, in 2022 he was awarded the Oliver Cromwell Prize in Jewish Studies. Currently, Dr Gębski is a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow at FAMES, Cambridge, where he teaches Modern Hebrew and conducts research on Jewish and Muslim varieties of spoken Maghrebi Arabic. His academic interests involve language endangerment, the syntax of spoken Arabic, and language contact between Jewish dialects of Arabic and Israeli Hebrew. 01 eng 00 528 03 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 12 CF 10 LAN009010 04 PJ5079.5.G33 23 Spoken Arabic dialect in Northern Africa 12 CFF 23 Jews of Gabes, Tunisia 10 LAN006000 23 Linguistics 12 CFFD 10 HIS022000 23 Linguistics 12 CFK 10 HIS026010 23 Judaeo-Arabic 12 JFSR1 23 Northern African dialects 12 2CSR 23 Linguistic preservation 23 Linguistic extinction 01 06 03 00 This volume undertakes a linguistic exploration of the endangered Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Gabes, a coastal city situated in Southern Tunisia. Belonging to the category of sedentary North African dialects, this variety is now spoken by a dwindling number of native speakers, primarily in Israel and France. Given the imminent extinction faced by many modern varieties of Judaeo-Arabic, including Jewish Gabes, the study's primary goal is to document and describe its linguistic nuances while reliable speakers are still accessible. Data for this comprehensive study were collected during fieldwork in Israel and France between December 2018 and March 2022. The volume's primary objective is a meticulous comparative analysis of Jewish Gabes, with a special emphasis on syntax, aiming to discern unique linguistic features through comparison with other North African dialects. The results of the study suggest that the Jewish dialect of Gabes emerged in the first wave of the Arab conquest of the Maghreb, thus exhibiting features that set it apart from its Muslim counterpart. This old variety therefore has the potential to provide invaluable information on the formation of Maghrebi Arabic and the mechanisms of language contact in the pre-Islamic Maghreb. The volume is organised in three main sections: phonology, morphology, and syntax, with the syntax section adopting historical and typological perspectives to shed light on this linguistic terra incognita. 04 00 Preface List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations and Symbols 1. Introduction Part I: Phonology 2. Phonology Part II: Morphology 3. Verbal Morphology 4. Nominal Morphology Part III: Diachronic and Comparative Studies in Syntax 5. Syntax of Nouns 6. Syntax of Verbs and Clauses 7. Syntax of Pronouns 8. Conclusion Appendix: A Corpus of Selected Narratives Quoted in the Volume Bibliography Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20240415 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805112518 06 15 9781805112525 06 15 9781805112532 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01