Abstract

This artide contends that interdialectal Variation in Berber has not destroyed the profound structural unity of the language. Four syntactic aspects of Berber dialects are examined: (i) wordorder, which is dominated by verb-subject-object in all dialects; (U) participal forms, which vary in gender and number but not in person; and (iii) the polysemous verb g, in which the interdialectal Variation satisfies the dichotomy transitive versus copulative predicates; Ms verb behaves as a copula in Tashelhit, for instance, but is absent in the Aures. Thus, despite the discontinuity and diversity that characterize all these elements, there are many morphosyntactic similarities across the Berber dialects, which illustrates the principle of linguistic unity within diversity.

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