Communal dialects in Baghdad /
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Author / Creator: | Blanc, Haim, author. |
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Edition: | Revised reprint. |
Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. ©2024 |
Description: | xxxiv, 194 pages : portrait, map ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 111 Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 111. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13494014 |
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Communal dialects in Baghdad |
Summary: | Haira Blanc's Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the years 1957-1962, this book portaits the extensive regional continuum of modern spoken Arabic stretching across parts of Mesopotamia and N. Syria, evinced by the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speech communities in Baghdad. Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers. |
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Physical Description: | xxxiv, 194 pages : portrait, map ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-165) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789004689794 9004689796 9789004689886 |
ISSN: | 0081-8461 ; |