The Handbook of Berber Linguistics

This handbook is the largest and most comprehensive publication  on Berber linguistics to date, covering the variety of Berber dialects  and related linguistics trends. Extensive and diverse at thematic and  theoretical levels, with the aim of deepening students and scholars'  understanding of the workings of Berber as a linguistic phenomenon, it  explores a multitude of angles through which the diachronic and  synchronic intricacies of Berber varieties can be examined. It enables a  better understanding of the issues in the various components of North  African languages, as well as their theoretical and typological  significance and implications. The work covers phonology and phonetics,  morphology and syntax, semantics and pragmatics, socio-linguistics and  dialectology, language teaching and psycholinguistics, lexicology,  language contact and comparative linguistics, historical linguistics and  etymology. Sub-themes explored include prosody, ideophones (and  expressive language in general), morpho-syntactic categories,  sociolinguistic variation and several other seminal interdisciplinary  explorations. The chapters reflect the diversity of Berber varieties and  include up-to-date scholarship by leading Berberists, with varieties  including Figuig, Kabyle, Senhaja, Siwa, Standard Moroccan Amazigh,  Tamazight, Tarifit, Tashlhit, Touareg, Tunisian Berber, Znaga, as well  as Proto-Berber. A large geographical territory is covered, including  Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. With  contributions from these Berber-speaking countries and their diaspora,  there are also chapters from prominent Berber scholars from America,  Australia and Europe. To this end, the volume includes perspectives and  theories from different schools of linguistics. In including original  French contributions and English translations of research from top  scholars in the field, the book includes another vital dimension in  terms ofthe resources, and sources. As a comprehensive reference, this  work is of interest to North Africanists from various disciplines,  including anthropologists, linguists, and sociologists, but particularly  linguists interested in endangered languages, and those working on the  historical and comparative study of the Afroasiatic language phylum.