With this detailed and comprehensive survey, Maarten Kossmann provides not only Berberists and Arabists, but also all linguists interested in language contact and related issues, with an impressive amount of data and with food for thought. Based on considerable documentation, his work offers a synthesis that had never been attempted before of most of the elements in the Maghrebian Berber languages that could be considered to be borrowings from Arabic, with a careful evaluation, in each case, of the validity of such an attribution. For this purpose, the author gives a summary of the relevant Arabic facts, followed by a detailed account of the Berber ones, which often leads him to real small monographic treatments of problems. From this point of view, his work can be considered, at least regarding the many issues studied, a historical and comparative grammar of ‘Northern Berber’. Therefore it seemed to us that this significant work deserved far more than a short notice, and we decided to review it in detail.

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À propos de Maarten Kossmann：阿拉伯语对北柏柏尔人的影响。Compte rendu d'un travail de synthèse

通过这项详细而全面的调查，Maarten Kossmann 不仅为柏柏尔主义者和阿拉伯主义者，而且为所有对语言接触和相关问题感兴趣的语言学家提供了大量的数据和思考的食物。基于大量文献，他的工作提供了以前从未尝试过的马格里布柏柏尔语中大部分元素的综合，这些元素可以被认为是从阿拉伯语借来的，在每种情况下都仔细评估了有效性这样的归属。为此，作者总结了相关的阿拉伯事实，然后详细描述了柏柏尔人的事实，这常常使他对问题进行真正的小篇幅专着处理。从这个角度来看，他的工作可以被认为是，至少在研究的许多问题上，“北柏柏尔”的历史和比较语法。因此，在我们看来，这项重要的工作不应该只是一个短暂的通知，我们决定详细审查它。