Arabic-L:PEDA:Prescriptive Manual Responses

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1) Subject: Prescriptive Manual Response
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Date: 30 Sep 1999
From: DWILMSEN at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Prescriptive Manual Response

there are two works by Mohamed Enany:

both from librairie du liban

mu at gam al-aghlaat al-lughawiyya al-mu at aasira

and

mu at gam al-axtaa' al-shaa'i at a

david wilmsen
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Date: 30 Sep 1999
From: Gunvor Mejdell <gunvor.mejdell at east.uio.no>
Subject: Prescriptive Manual Response

>>From Librairie du Liban 1984 (1986) there is published

"A Dictionary of Common Mistakes in Modern Written Arabic (with
corrections, explanations and examples)" by Muhammad Al- Adnani (870 pp) in
Arabic (title given in Arabic and English)

A small book by Yu:suf Nimr Dhiya:b: Fi: da: irat al-naqd al-lughawi,
Baghdad 1988, contains a chapter (7pp) on "al- akhTa:  al- uslu:biyya fi:
l-kutub al-mutarjama" - commenting i.a. on excessive use of /wa-/ and
/bi-/; /Haythu/ and /tamma/

best wishes
Gunvor Mejdell, University of Oslo.

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