Arabic Linguistic Thought and Dialectology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Linguistic Thought and Dialectology write by Aryeh Levin. This book was released on 1998. Arabic Linguistic Thought and Dialectology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The articles collected in this volume form a contribution to the study of Arabic linguistics. Most of them deal with Arabic medieval grammatical thought and terminology and are based on the oldest grammatical treatises known to us, especially Sibawayhi's al-Kitab. The study of these two topics is interrelated, since the understanding of Arabic grammatical thought depends on the understanding of its terminology and vice versa. During the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, some prominent scholars maintained that the linguistic data supplied by the early Arab grammarians are unreliable, and, as a result, their grammatical rules do not accord with the linguistic reality of Old Arabic. Professor Levin's studies concerning the history of Arabic language contribute to the refutation of this view, showing that Sibawayhi's linguistic method was mainly descriptive and that the linguistic information furnished by him is authentic and reliable. Professor Levin also shows that Sibawayhi's accurate description of Old Arabic is based primarily on the ordinary speech of certain Bedouin tribes who lived in Southern Iraq in the eighth century. The linguistic data found in the Ketab indicate that these Bedouins still spoke Old Arabic dialects. Aryeh Levin is Professor of Arabic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also the author of "A Grammar of the Arabic Dialect of Jerusalem" (in Hebrew).
Arabic Dialectology
Arabic Dialectology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Dialectology write by Enam Al-Wer. This book was released on 2009-06-24. Arabic Dialectology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much of the insight in the field of Arabic linguistics has for a long time remained unknown to linguists outside the field. Regrettably, Arabic data rarely feature in the formulation of theories and analytical tools in modern linguistics. This situation is unfavourable to both sides. The Arabist, once an outrider, has almost become a non-member of the mainstream linguistics community. Consequently, linguistics itself has been deprived of a wealth of data from one of the world's major languages. However, it is reassuring to witness advances being made to integrate into mainstream linguistics the visions and debates of specialists in Arabic. Building on this fruitful endeavour, this book presents thought-provoking, new articles, especially written for this collection by leading scholars from both sides. The authors discuss topics in historical, social and spatial dialectology focusing on Arabic data investigated within modern analytical frameworks.
Arabic Historical Dialectology
Arabic Historical Dialectology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Historical Dialectology write by Clive Holes. This book was released on 2018-08-30. Arabic Historical Dialectology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Modern Trends in Arabic Dialectology
Modern Trends in Arabic Dialectology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Trends in Arabic Dialectology write by Mohamed Embarki. This book was released on 2011. Modern Trends in Arabic Dialectology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classification of Arabic dialects is a work in process - in particular, there is a significant lack of language-based approaches and the concept of inheritance is often neglected. Recent scholarship has attempted to address these issues. Arabic Dialectology, a compilation of essays from scholars of different origins and diverse linguistic backgrounds (Arabic, Berber, English, French, Hebrew, Spanish), aims to shed a light on recent trends in Arabic dialectology. A key contribution to the understanding of Arabic linguistics, Arabic Dialectology is a must-have.
The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
The Arabic Linguistic Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Arabic Linguistic Tradition write by C. H. M. Versteegh. This book was released on 1997. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
