Arabic dialectology in honour of Clive Holes on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Al-Wer, Enam, Jong, Rudolf Erik de, Holes, Clive, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 53.
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Table of 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.