What is it about?
Shows that d(i) and dyal were borrowed directly from Late Latin as spoken in the Roman triangle of Tangier, Salé, and Volubilis at the time of the Arab occupation.
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Why is it important?
Brings out the debt of archaic Moroccan Arabic to Late Latin.
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This page is a summary of: D-possessives and the origins of Moroccan Arabic, Diachronica, March 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/dia.32.1.01hea.
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