Edited by Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco
[Studies in Arabic Linguistics 6] 2018
► pp. 161–170
This paper will explain the strategies of loan verbs integration in Egyptian Arabic (EA). As a recipient language, EA adopts two strategies: (a) insertion with ‘Light Verb Strategy’; and (b) Direct Insertion either with or without ‘Reduction to Root.’
While direct insertion strategy without ‘reduction to root’ is used almost exclusively for imperative loan verbs, the same strategy with ‘reduction to root’ is open to any ‘input form’. To each loan verb EA assigns a root and the loan verb assumes one of the EA verbal forms.
An investigation of new loan verbs passed to EA through Social Media, while they are being integrated, gives us further insight, and therefore a better understanding, into the integration process of loan verbs in general.
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