| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 53 |
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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 53.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This book offers a fresh look at Arabic data in a collection of thought-provoking, new articles written by some of the best known scholars in the field. The contributors discuss topics in historical, social and spatial dialectology focusing on Arabic data investigated within modern analytical frameworks |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliography of Clive Holes": pages xiii-xvii |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English, with one article in French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabic language -- Dialects.
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Sociolinguistics -- Arab countries
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Arabic language -- Dialects
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Sociolinguistics
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Mundart
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Arab countries
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Arabisch.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Al-Wer, Enam, editor.
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Jong, Rudolf Erik de, editor.
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Holes, Clive, 1948- honouree.
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| LC no. |
2009014371 |
| ISBN |
9789047425595 |
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9047425596 |
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1282400622 |
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9781282400627 |
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9786612400629 |
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6612400625 |
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