Variability of nominal genitives in Casablanca Moroccan Arabic

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natural language processing

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Abstract This paper uses sociolinguistic variationist methods to quantitatively analyze patterns of nominal genitive usage in natural speech data from Casablanca Moroccan Arabic. The two variants of nominal genitives, the analytic genitive (involving a genitive exponent /dja:l/ or /d/) and the synthetic genitive (or construct state) are examined using multivariate analysis. Results show that the synthetic genitive is highly correlated with inalienable possession, as previous literature claims. The analytic is predominant overall when the possessor is a lexical noun, partly supporting claims that Moroccan Arabic uses it the most, but the synthetic is still dominant with pronoun possessors.

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