A Linguistic History of ArabicOUP Oxford, 11 mai 2006 - 316 pages A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the traditional conceptualization of an old, Classical language evolving into the contemporary Neo-Arabic dialects. Professor Owens combines established comparative linguistic methodology with a careful reading of the classical Arabic sources, such as the grammatical and exegetical traditions. He arrives at a richer and more complexpicture of early Arabic language history than is current today and in doing so establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a concise, case by case basis, making it accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamicculture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists. |
Table des matières
A Language and Its Secrets | 1 |
2 Old Arabic NeoArabic and Comparative Linguistics | 34 |
3 Case and ProtoArabic | 79 |
4 AlIdgham alKabiyr and Case Endings | 119 |
A Statistical Approach to Arabic Language History | 137 |
6 Nigerian Arabic and Reconstruction of the Imperfect Verb | 184 |
7 Imala | 197 |
8 Suffix Pronouns and Reconstruction | 230 |
9 Summary and Epilogue | 266 |
Appendix 1 List and short summary of dialects included in study | 271 |
Appendix 2 List of features used in comparison Chapter 5 with brief exemplification | 276 |
Appendix 3 Imala in Zamaxshari | 281 |
Appendix 4 Table of suffix pronouns used in reconstructions in Chapter 8 | 283 |
References | 285 |
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