LES EMPRUNTS AU FRANÇAIS DANS LE DIALECTE KOWEÏTIEN : TRACE DE LA DYNAMIQUE INTERACTIVE DES LANGUES
LOANWORDS FROM FRENCH IN THE KUWAITI DIALECT: TRACE OF THE INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE DYNAMICS

Summary/Abstract: The journey of words from one language to another, known as “lexical borrowing” orloanwords, constitutes the most common form of linguistic exchange. This paper offers a linguisticreflection on the French lexical influence on dialectal Arabic, more precisely Kuwaiti Arabic. Ourhypothesis is to prove that, contrary to widespread ideas, French is indeed present in the dialectalArabic of the Arabian Peninsula, including in Kuwait, a presence that was always thought to bemarginal and imperceptible, even if contact is generally made indirectly. It will also show that loaningfrom French comply with a systemic regularity to the extent that these lexemes are integrated into thehost language and generally lend themselves to the phonetic and morphological rules of Kuwaitidialect.

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