Arabic dialectology : in honour of Clive Holes on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English French
Series:	Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 53 Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 53.
Subject:	Arabic language -- Dialects. Sociolinguistics -- Arab countries. Arabic language -- Dialects. Sociolinguistics. Arab countries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11215755

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Other authors / contributors:	Al-Wer, Enam, editor. Jong, Rudolf Erik de, editor. Holes, Clive, 1948- honouree.
ISBN:	9789047425595 9047425596 1282400622 9781282400627 9786612400629 6612400625 9789004172128 9004172122
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	"Bibliography of Clive Holes": pages xiii-xvii Includes bibliographical references and index. In English, with one article in French. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Arabic dialectology. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9004172122
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004172128.i-298

Table of Contents:

Topics in historical linguistics. Indeterminacy and the comparative method : Arabic as a model for understanding the history of Aramaic / Jonathan Owens
From qultu to gulut : diachronic notes on linguistic adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic / Heikki Palva
The g/ǧ-question in Egyptian Arabic revisited / Manfred Woidich and Liesbeth Zack
Descriptive dialectology. Words and things / Peter Behnstedt
The Arabic dialect of a Šawāwī community of Northern Oman / Domenyk Eades
The dialect of the Euphrates bedouin, a fringe Mesopotamian dialect / Bruce Ingham
Quelques données sociolinguistiques sur l'arabe parlé à damas à la fin des années mille neuf cent soixante-dix / Jérôme Lentin
Contact phenomena. Contact, isolation, and complexity in Arabic / Peter Trudgill
Loan verbs in Arabic and the DO-construction / Kees Versteegh
Social dialectology. When Najd meets Hijaz : dialect contact in Jeddah / Aziza Al-Essa
"Big bright lights" versus "green and pleasant land"? : the unhelpful dichotomy of 'urban' versus 'rural' in dialectology / David Britain
The variable (h) in Damascus : analysis of a stable variable / Hanadi Ismail
Code mixing. The variety of housewives and cockroaches : examining code-choice in advertisements in Egypt / Reem Bassiouney.

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