This study introduces the notion of "ecolinguistics" to identify the linguistic correlates of ecological — bedouin, village, and urban — developments in the Arab world, and describes the ecolinguistic
This first in-depth study of Arabic grammars of Turkic and the translation of Kitab al-’Idrak Li-Lisan al-’Atrak provides important new insights in the application of the Arabic model to Turkic in pho
Versteegh (Arabic and Islam, U. of Nijmegen, Netherlands) combines information from Arabic linguistics and from the exegesis of the Qur'an in the first half of the eighth century A.D. He compares the
Scholars of Arabic from Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Europe, and the US explore a wide range of current research issues in Arabic linguistics, including theoretical and applied topics of interest in gene
Revising his 1999 Ph.D. dissertation for Leiden University, Peursen analyzes the morphosyntax of the tenses in Ben Sira, surveys the use of tenses in various kinds of clauses, draws conclusions about
The aim of the present work is to make a contribution to the understanding of the inner workings of the Syriac language through a study of one important corpus written in that language.The book contai
Presents 40 years worth of papers on Arabic linguistics by a pioneering American linguist, addressing issues of phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Sections on diachronica
In Historical Aspects of Standard Negation in Semitic Ambjörn Sjörs describes the grammar of verbal negation in a wide selection of Semitic languages with an emphasis on the historical change of negat
This work is a documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran). It consists of four volumes: Volume 1a and 1b—grammar, Volume 2—study o
This volume constitutes the first reference grammar of the Hasidic Hebrew hagiographic tales composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. It presents a thorough survey of H
In The Tigre Language of Ginda?, Eritrea, David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language spoken in the town of Ginda?, Eritrea (East Africa). Basic aspects of grammar, as well as texts in
In "The Subjunctive Mood in Arabic Grammatical Thought" Arik Sadan outlines the grammatical theories on the "na b" (subjunctive mood) in Classical Arabic. Examining over 160 treatises written by 85 gr
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of Jibbali (or Shah?ri), an unwritten Semitic language spoken in Oman. This is first grammar of its kind. The large corpus of texts from various
In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. The study demonstrates the effect of the extended s
Ingham of Arabia is a collection of twelve articles on modern Arabic dialectology, covering Oman, Jordan, Sinai, the Negev, southern Turkey, Syria; and other articles concerning general topics in Arab
Contributors identified only by name look at dialects in the Arab language from the perspectives of historical linguistics, descriptive dialectology, contact phenomena, social dialectology, and code m
The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics, IV, contains sixteen studies on grammatical theories from the earliest period of Arabic grammar (end 8th century C.E.) and the evolution of theory by later gramm
The twenty papers presented here by Orfali (Arabic and Islamic studies, American U. of Beirut, Lebanon) are dedicated in honor of Ramzi Baalbaki, scholar of Arabic at the American U. of Beirut. As suc
