Études de linguistique ouest-saharienne (C. Taine-Cheikh)

The order in which the articles are presented is fairly close to chronological order, but although some of them deal with related problems, each can be read independently of the others. The first article, which provides a fairly general overview, is a fairly comprehensive introduction to the ḥassāniyya dialect and the sociolinguistic situation in Mauritania. As for the following articles, they deal with various more specific issues such as the question of the relationship between languages and identities, both in Mauritania and southern Morocco; the question of language policy and the choice of languages in education; the question of borrowings from classical Arabic and the use of codic alternation; the question of the orientation and shifting naming of cardinal points; the question of linguistic changes linked to urbanisation; and finally the question of the ethnolinguistic specificities of Moorish fishing and hunting groups.