| Description |
xviii, 298 p. : ill., maps. |
| Series |
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; v. 53 |
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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 53.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Bibliography of Clive Holes": p. [xiii]-xviii. |
| 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/g-question in Egyptian Arabic revisited / Manfred Woidich and Liesbeth Zack -- Descriptive dialectology. Words and things / Peter Behnstedt -- The Arabic dialect of a Sawawi community of Northern Oman / Domenyk Eades -- The dialect of the Euphrates bedouin, a fringe Mesopotamian dialect / Bruce Ingham -- Quelques donnees sociolinguistiques sur l'arabe parle a damas a la fin des annees mille neuf cent soixante-dix / Jerome 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Language |
In English; one article in French. |
| Subject |
Arabic language -- Dialects.
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Sociolinguistics -- Arab countries.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Al-Wer, Enam.
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Jong, Rudolf Erik de.
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Holes, Clive, 1948-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9004172122 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9789004172128 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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