Table of Contents: Arabic dialectology

Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors:	Jong, Rudolf Erik de.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:	Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, v. 53
Subjects:	Arabic language > Dialects. Sociolinguistics > Arab countries.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10349215

Table of 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/ιg-question in Egyptian Arabic revisited / Manfred Woidich and Liesbeth Zack
Descriptive dialectology. Words and things / Peter Behnstedt
The Arabic dialect of a ιSawεawεi community of Northern Oman / Domenyk Eades
The dialect of the Euphrates bedouin, a fringe Mesopotamian dialect / Bruce Ingham
Quelques donnβees sociolinguistiques sur l'arabe parlβe αa damas αa la fin des annβees mille neuf cent soixante-dix / Jβerγome 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.