Arabic Dialectology

by Al-wer, Enam; De Jong, Rudolf

• ISBN13: 9789004172128
• ISBN10: 9004172122
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-31
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This book offers a fresh look at Arabic data in a collection of thought-provoking, new articles written by some of the best known scholars in the field. The contributors discuss topics in historical, social and spatial dialectology focusing on Arabic data investigated within modern analytical frameworks.

Author Biography

Enam Al-Wer Ph.D. (1991) in Linguistics, University of Essex, is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Essex. She has published widely on issues in sociolinguistics and dialect contact. She is the author of Understanding Sociolinguistics (forthcoming, Arnold, 2008) and co-authored Arabic in the City (Curzon Routledge, 2008). Rudolf De Jong Ph.D. (1999), University of Amsterdam, is a researcher of Arabic dialects. He has published on several Arabic dialects, including A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral. Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill, 2000).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Bibliography of Clive Holes	p. xiii
Poem: On Your Sixtieth by Said	p. xix
Topics in Historical Linguistics
Indeterminacy and the Comparative Method: Arabic as a Model for Understanding the History of Aramaic	p. 3
From qsltu to galat: Diachronic Notes on Linguistic Adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic	p. 17
The g/ğ-question in Egyptian Arabic Revisited	p. 41
Descriptive Dialectology
Words and Things	p. 63
The Arabic Dialect of a ¿awāwī Community of Northern Oman	p. 77
The Dialect of the Euphrates Bedouin, a Fringe Mesopotamian Dialect	p. 99
Quelques Données Sociolinguistiques sur l'Arabe Parlé à Damas à la Fin des Années Mille Neuf Cent Soixante-dix	p. 109
Contact Phenomena
Contact, Isolation, and Complexity in Arabic	p. 173
Loan Verbs in Arabic and the DO-construction	p. 187
Social Dialectology
When Najd Meets Hijaz: Dialect Contact-in Jeddah	p. 203
"Big Bright Lights" Versus "Green and Pleasant Land"?: The Unhelpful Dichotomy of 'Urban' Versus 'Rural' in Dialectology	p. 223
The Variable (h) in Damascus: Analysis of a Stable Variable	p. 249
Code Mixing
The Variety of Housewives and Cockroaches: Examining Code-choice in Advertisements in Egypt	p. 273
Index	p. 285
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