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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Arabic language—Variation [Browse]
• Arabic language—Written Arabic [Browse]
• Inscriptions, Lihyanic [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 110. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Series ; Volume 110

Summary note

This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Preliminary Material / Fokelien Kootstra
• Copyright Page / Fokelien Kootstra
• Sigla and Abbreviations / Fokelien Kootstra
• Acknowledgements / Fokelien Kootstra
• Introduction / Fokelien Kootstra
• Chapter 1 The Oasis of Dadan in Space and Time / Fokelien Kootstra
• Chapter 2 Script and Manners of Inscribing / Fokelien Kootstra
• Chapter 3 Genres and Compositional Formulae / Fokelien Kootstra
• Chapter 4 Orthography and Phonology / Fokelien Kootstra
• Chapter 5 Verbal Morphology / Fokelien Kootstra
• Chapter 6 Nominal and Pronominal Morphology / Fokelien Kootstra
• Chapter 7 A Quantitative Approach to Variation / Fokelien Kootstra
• Chapter 8 Analysis / Fokelien Kootstra
• Conclusions / Fokelien Kootstra
• Back Matter
• Glossary / Fokelien Kootstra
• Bibliography / Fokelien Kootstra
• Index of Inscriptions / Fokelien Kootstra.

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ISBN

90-04-51263-2

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004512634

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