Arabic-L:LING:koine responses

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Date: 09 Nov 1999
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: koine response

You might want to take a look at the essay I wrote as a preface to the
"Diachronica" section (pp. 27-35) of:

Belnap, R. Kirk and Niloofar Haeri (ed.). 1997. Structuralist Studies in
Arabic Linguistics: Charles A. Ferguson's Papers, 1954-1994. Leiden: Brill.

You will find a number of useful references there.  Looking under "koine" I
found the following in the ALS bibliography:

Mitchell, T.F. 1982. More than a matter of "writing with the learned,
pronouncing with the vulgar" some preliminary observations on the Arabic
Koine. Standard Languages: Spoken and Written, ed. by 123-55. Manchester,
Totowa: X: Manchester University Press.

Palva, Heikki. 1982. Patterns of Koineization in Modern Colloquial Arabic.
Acta Orientalia 43:13-32.

Roman, Andre. 1983. Etude de la phonologie et de la morphologie de la koine
Arabe. Aix-en-Provence: Univ. de Provence.

Versteegh, Kees. 1993. Leveling in the Sudan: From Arabic Creole to Arabic
Dialect. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 99:65-79.

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Date: 09 Nov 1999
From: jamal al-shareef <jamalling at hotmail.com>
Subject: koine response

Dear Members
I think there is a useful article about Koine and koinezation in Different
places in the world in addition to the Arabic koine. the article is written
by Jeef Siegel (1985) in Journal of Language in Society, Volume 14, 357-378.
yours
Jamal Al-shareef


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Date: 09 Nov 1999
From: alaa elgibali <elgibali at aucegypt.edu>
Subject: koine response

Regarding Koine and the formation of Arabic, you may want to consult the
work of Kees Versteegh "Pidginization and Creolization: The case of
Arabic," John Benjamins.  It offers an excellent debate on the matter
and offers a fresh point of view. Also the work of Thomason and Kaufman
on "Language Contact and Language Change": although it does not
specifically address Arabic, it provides solid theoretical framework for
understanding the case at hand. Best wishes.

Alaa Elgibali
American University in Cairo

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