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Arabic Historical Dialectology - Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches (Hardcover)
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Arabic Historical Dialectology - Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 30
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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 indexicalisation; 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.
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