عنوان

Arabic historical dialectology :

(Number (ISBN

0191005061

(Number (ISBN

9780191005060

Erroneous ISBN

0198701373

Erroneous ISBN

9780198701378

Title Proper

Arabic historical dialectology :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Clive Holes.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oxford, OX :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text of Note

Introduction -- The Maghrebi dialects of Arabic -- The formation of the Egyptian Arabic dialect area -- The adnominal linker -an in Andalusi Arabic, with special reference to the poetry of Ibn Quzman (twelfth century) -- The Arabic dialects of the Gulf -- Judaeo-Arabic -- The Levant -- Dialects (speech communities), the apparent past, and grammaticalization -- The northern fertile crescent -- Historical typological approaches to Mauritanian and west Saharan Arabic -- South Arabian and Arabic dialects.

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Text of Note

This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. It specifically investigates the evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, in contrast to the many existing studies that focus on written Classical or Modern Standard Arabic. The volume begins with a discursive introduction that deals with important issues in the general scholarly context, including the indigenous myth and probable reality of the history of Arabic; Arabic dialect geography and typology; types of internally and externally motivated linguistic change; social indexicalization; and pidginization and creolization in Arabic-speaking communities. Most chapters then focus on developments in a specific region - Mauritania, the Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant, the Northern Fertile Crescent, the Gulf, and South Arabia - with one exploring Judaeo-Arabic, a group of varieties historically spread over a wider area. The remaining two chapters in the volume examine individual linguistic features of particular historical interest and controversy, specifically the origin and evolution of the b- verbal prefix, and the adnominal linker -an/-in. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the linguistic and social history of Arabic as well as to comparative linguists interested in topics such as linguistic typology and language change.

International Standard Book Number

0198701373

Arabic language-- Dialects-- History.

Linguistics-- Arab countries-- History.

Sociolinguistics-- Arab countries-- History.

Arabic language-- Dialects.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Arabic.

Historical linguistics.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Historical & Comparative.

Linguistics.

Sociolinguistics.

Arab countries.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Holes, Clive,1948-

Date of Transaction

20200822092217.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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