: in honour of Clive Holes on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
/ edited by Enam Al-Wer , Rudolf de Jong.
; Boston
: Brill
, 2009.
xviii, 298 p.
: ill., maps
; 25 cm.
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics
; v. 53
, 0081-8461
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Bibliography of Clive Holes": p. [xiii]-xviii.
Topics in historical linguistics. Indeterminacy and the comparative method : Arabic as a model for understanding the history of Aramaic / Jonathan Owens -- From qultu to gulut : diachronic notes on linguistic adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic / Heikki Palva -- The g/ǧ-question in Egyptian Arabic revisited / Manfred Woidich and Liesbeth Zack -- Descriptive dialectology. Words and things / Peter Behnstedt -- The Arabic dialect of a Šawāwī community of Northern Oman / Domenyk Eades -- The dialect of the Euphrates bedouin, a fringe Mesopotamian dialect / Bruce Ingham -- Quelques données sociolinguistiques sur l'arabe parlé à damas à la fin des années mille neuf cent soixante-dix / Jérôme Lentin -- Contact phenomena. Contact, isolation, and complexity in Arabic / Peter Trudgill -- Loan verbs in Arabic and the DO-construction / Kees Versteegh -- Social dialectology. When Najd meets Hijaz : dialect contact in Jeddah / Aziza Al-Essa -- "Big bright lights" versus "green and pleasant land"? : the unhelpful dichotomy of 'urban' versus 'rural' in dialectology / David Britain -- The variable (h) in Damascus : analysis of a stable variable / Hanadi Ismail -- Code mixing. The variety of housewives and cockroaches : examining code-choice in advertisements in Egypt / Reem Bassiouney.