Arabic dialectology in honour of Clive Holes on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday / [electronic resource] :
edited by Enam Al-Wer and Rudolf de Jong.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
- xviii, 298 p. : ill., maps.
- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, v. 53 0081-8461 ; .
- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 53. .
Includes bibliographical references and index. "Bibliography of Clive Holes": p. [xiii]-xviii.
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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