… issue within the field of Sociolinguistics. Language choice can … enough, Arabic, with its
lexical wealth and its characteristic … reflect the history of Egypt, as a large number of French and …

… associated certain features with certain social groups. … presenting themselves as Arabic
sociolinguistic studies were first … , while the French-speaking publications developed a historical …

… It appears possible here to speak of a borrowing of cultural … geographical and socio-historical
orientation to a new focus. … of sociolinguistic studies in the region include French as one …

… distressing adherence to French grammatical categories. … , diglossia, and other sociolinguistic
factors in borrowings. It is a … ; the history of Caucasian writing; and the history of the study …

… occurs widely in borrowings which are not originally Arabic at all. … in Spanish, French, English,
and Arabic on various lexical, … geographical distribution of features in the modern dialects, …

… a rich sociolinguistic laboratory with a long history of … degree Maltese Arabic, a long list of
features that distinguish … regular Arabic inflection to construct the plural of French loanwords, …

… to trace the historical developments of sociolinguistics or the … They argue that Arabic-French
examples cast doubt on all of … : (1) borrowing from prestigi and Modern Standard Arabic, (2) …

… to men discussed in the sociolinguistic literature. Labov (2001:364… and standard linguistic
features are generally chosen by … the study of lexical borrowings as sociolinguistic variables in …

… Persian loanwords, Arabic loanwords were historically among … consolidated by the influx of
French loanwords of the same … Table 10 summarises the sociolinguistic characteristics of the …

… complexity: Modern Standard Arabic, Algerian Arabic, French, … sociolinguistic phenomena
like Bilingualism, Borrowing, Code … the historical background that influences Algerian’s current …