Hebrew and Arabic in Contact: Deviation and Interference in Iraqi Jewish Fiction
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Vol. 63 (2014), Articles, pages 11-25
Submitted: Jan 24, 2020
Published: Dec 3, 2014
Abstract
As bilingual authors, Iraqi Jewish novelists use Arabic in some of their Hebrew novels, the result of which has been some linguistic phenomena related to languages in contact. This paper discusses the deviations and interferences between Arabic and Hebrew in Iraqi Jewish fiction, asserting that both interference and deviation from the Modern Hebrew norm occur at times under the influence of Arabic. The paper concludes with the question of whether these deviations from the Modern Hebrew norm foreground literary texts by Iraqi Jewish authors.
Keywords:
Language in contact, Bilingualism, Arabic and Hebrew, Iraqi Jewish fiction, Foregrounding
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Ahmed, M. A. H. (2014). Hebrew and Arabic in Contact: Deviation and Interference in Iraqi Jewish Fiction. Miscelánea De Estudios Árabes Y Hebraicos. Sección Hebreo, 63, 11–25. https://doi.org/10.30827/meahhebreo.v63i0.555