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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dialects [Browse]
• Sociolinguistics—Arab countries [Browse]

Related name

• Al-Wer, Enam [Browse]
• Jong, Rudolf Erik de. [Browse]
• Holes, Clive, 1948- [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 53. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; v. 53 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Bibliography of Clive Holes": p. [xiii]-xviii.

Language note

In English; one article in French.

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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ISBN

• 9004172122 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004172128 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009014371

OCLC

313666525

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