A Linguistic History of ArabicOUP Oxford, 11 mai 2006 - 330 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. |
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Case and ProtoArabic | 114 |
AlIdgham alKabiyr and Case Endings | 124 |
A Statistical Approach | 137 |
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2FSG 2MSG Abu Amr Arabian peninsula Arabic dialects Arabic language Arabic language history Arabicists attested Bagirmi basic basis Behnstedt Birkeland caseless variety century chapter Classical Arabic comparative linguistic consonants contemporary context contrast deletion detail dialect areas discussion emphatic consonants epenthesis epenthetic vowel examples final vowel Fischer genitive grammarians grammatical high vowel historical linguistics history of Arabic Ibn Mujahid imala imperfect verb innovation instance interpretation Jastrow Kirenawa Koranic lexical low vowel Maltese Mardin Mesopotamian Mesopotamian Arabic Middle Arabic modern dialects morphological Najdi Najdi Arabic Neo-Arabic Nigerian Arabic nominative noted noun object suffix occur Old Arabic sources open syllables pausal forms pausal position phonetic phonological pre-diasporic Arabic pronominal proto-Arabic proto-form qultu dialects reconstruction reflex rule sect Semitic languages sequence short high vowels short vowels Shukriyya Sibawaih sonorant speakers Standard Arabic statistics stem suffix Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Arabic variables variant varieties of Arabic WSA area