Moroccan Judeo-Arabic Dialects as Jewish Languages Structures, Uses and Diversity

Foreword

Phonologic and phonetic characters

1. Socio-pragmatic and dialectological foundations

A.    Foundations of a socio-pragmatic model of language

1. Introduction

2. Elements of a linguistic and discursive socio-pragmatics

3. The socio-pragmatic functions of language through discourse

4. Conclusion

B.     Formation and diversity of Jewish languages and Judeo-Arabic in North Africa

1. Introduction

2. Unity and diversity of Jewish languages

3. The Diversity of Judeo-Arabic dialects in North Africa: Lects, polylects, and sociolects

4. Conclusion

C.    The long ethnographic investigation on Judeo-Moroccan oral and linguistic traditions

1. Materials and objectives of the Study

2. Linguistic and Discursive Investigation

3. Conclusion

2. Judeo-Arabic Dialects in Morocco: Their Diglossic and hybridized structures

1. Introduction

2. The constitution and development of the Judeo-Arabic dialects in Morocco

3. Semantic-syntactic hybridization ‒ The ʃarħ as a global intertextual hybridization

4. The intra-linguistic diversity of Judeo-Arabic dialects

5. Conclusion

3. Morpho-Phonological and Morphologic Structures in Moroccan Judeo-Arabic dialects

1. Introduction

2. The various groups of consonantal sounds

3. The vowel system

4. The morphology of the Judeo-Arabic Dialects and their syllable structures

5. Conclusion

4. Characteristics and specificities of the main three categories of Judeo-Arabic dialects qal, k^jal, ʔal

1. Introduction: the autonomy of the Judeo-Arabic dialects and their connections with the diverse communal cultures

2. Dialects in the Marrakech and southwest regions – the qal dialects

3. Dialects in the Tafilalet and Southeast Region – the k^jal dialects

4. The dialects of the mixed communities ‒ the ʔal dialects       

5. Conclusion

5. The Judeo-Arabic dialects Kal of the northern Moroccan Jewish communities

1. Introduction

2. Linguistic features according to written poetic texts

3. Consonants and their realizations in the various texts

4. The vowel system of Judeo-Arabic in the communities of northern Morocco: Vowels and their realizations

5. Judeo-Arabic as a constituent component of the Ḥaketíya

6. Conclusion

Biography

Joseph Chetrit was formerly Head of The Center for the Study of Jewish Culture in Spain and Islamic Lands and Dean in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa, Israel. Prof. Chetrit has taught in the fields of Jewish Languages, Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew Linguistics, French Linguistics and North-African Jewish Poetry at various institutions across his career.