Berber in Contact. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives - Le berbère en contact. Etudes en linguistique et sociolinguistique

This volume includes most of the papers that were presented at the international conference "Berber in contact. Linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives", held in Milan / Italy on 28-29 January 2008. It comprises a series of studies on different forms of language contact involving Berber both in North Africa and among the Berber diaspora. The fifteen articles are grouped into two main sections according to the perspective from which the theme of contact is approached. The linguistic perspective focuses mainly on the analysis of contact effects on linguistic features and systems, while the sociolinguistic viewpoint primarily investigates the contexts of use of the different linguistic systems in contact.