Mediterranean Language Review 30 (2023)

The Mediterranean Language Review is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed forum for the investigation of language and culture in the Mediterranean. Articles, reviews and review articles address issues relating to multiple aspects of Mediterranean languages, past and present. Among these are essays discussing linguistic contact and diffusion in the Mediterranean area and its hinterland, as well as interaction of language and culture in the region. Sociolinguistic aspects, religion and language, and linguistic stratification with areal typology and the languages of the Mediterranean littoral are focused on. Finally, the historical evolution and present state of languages spoken by small nations and ethnic minorities, ethnolinguistic studies on island communities in the Mediterranean, the interlinguas Kultursprachen and Mediterranean Lingua Franca, as well as approaches to Mediterranean lexicology sum up the journal’s objects of study. From the contents (altogether 16 contributions): Paul Wexler, Was Mediterranean Language Review a good title? Marcel Erdal, Medieval Greek Influence in Turkic outside Anatolia Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis, Die griechisch-arabische Bilingue anlässlich der Eroberung Sinopes (1215) durch die Selçuken Till Stellino, Romanistisches Editorial: Eine kleine Retrospektive Maria Petrou, “Because I am a Foreigner”: Nonaccommodative Adjustments of German Speaking Host Community Members through the Eyes of Non-Native Speakers. With a Focus on First Language Turkish Speakers Wiktor Gebski, The Development of Sibilant Harmony in Maghrebi Arabic from the Perspective of Language Contact in Pre-Islamic Africa Massinissa Garaoun, Ébauche descriptive d’un îlot ancien d’arabophonie au coeur de la Kabylie: l’arabe bougiote (?l-Bgawiya) Alessia D’Accardio Berlinguer, The Arabic Dialect of Kairouan (Tunisia): Preliminary Data and Historical Sociolinguistic Considerations