30.205, Books: Arabic Historical Dialectology: Holes (ed.)

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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:39:47
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Arabic Historical Dialectology: Holes (ed.)

 


Title: Arabic Historical Dialectology 
Subtitle: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/arabic-historical-dialectology-9780198701378 


Editor: Clive Holes

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198701378 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 105.00


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)


Written In: English  (eng)

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