London; New York: Kegan Paul, International, 1996. — 568 p. — (Library of Arabic Linguistics 12). This book re-examines the socio-linguistic situation in Sicily during both the Islamic (213-485/827-1091) and the Norman (485-681/1091-1282) rules. Together with Islam and Christianity, the customs of the local people mixed with those of the Arabs, Berbers, Normans, Lombards and...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019. — 196 p. This thesis investigates the syntax of various verbs in Kuwaiti Arabic which realise functional heads encoding Tense, Aspect and Modality, in addition to being used as lexical verbs. It investigates some fundamental issues such as the markedness of the perfective and imperfective verbal forms with respect to Tense and Aspect,...
University of Essex, 2019. — 292 p. This study describes a wide range of syntactic aspects of negation in Turaif Arabic (TA), a spoken variety of Saudi Arabia, with some comparison with other varieties, and develops an approach to the syntactic analysis of core aspects of negation in TA within the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). The main focus of this study is on...
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, 2012. — 55 p. The investigation of the structure of Arabic, a Semitic language spoken in many Arab countries, has revealed many typologically important linguistic phenomena, particularly related to syntax. The importance is seen in both its standard and dialectal forms. One of the important syntactic aspects of Arabic is negation, a...
University of Sheffield, 2015. — 466 p. Arabic is spoken by more than 280 million people around the world and has been subject to attention in a number of acoustic phonetic studies. However, there are a limited number of studies on Gulf Arabic dialects and the majority of these studies have focused mainly on male speakers. Therefore, this study aimed to explore two Gulf Arabic...
University of Leeds, 2018. — 215 p. This study investigates how to classify Arabic dialects in text by extracting features which show the differences between dialects. There has been a lack of research about classification of Arabic dialect texts, in comparison to English and some other languages, due to the lack of Arabic dialect text corpora in comparison with what is...
Brill, 2009. — 300 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 53). Much of the insight in the field of Arabic linguistics has for a long time remained unknown to linguists outside the field. Regrettably, Arabic data rarely feature in the formulation of theories and analytical tools in modern linguistics. This situation is unfavourable to both sides. The Arabist, once an...
Routledge, 2020. — 346 p. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics comprises 22 chapters encompassing various aspects in the study of Arabic dialects within their sociolinguistic context. This is a novel volume, which not only includes the traditional topics in variationist sociolinguistics, but also links the sociolinguistic enterprise to the history of Arabic and to...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. — 347 p. Obviously, many books and handbooks are used to prepare for linguistic fieldwork. However, these do not describe the specific intricacies of fieldwork within Semitic dialectology and the regions of its concern, especially the Middle East and North Africa. The existing literature on Semitic dialectology, then again, often omits the...
Istanbul, 1994. — 159 s. Türk ve Arap dilleri arasındaki karşılıklı etkileşimde vurgulanan yön, genellikle Arapça'nın Türkçe üzerindeki etkisi olmuştur. Bu etkileşimin şimdiye kadar pek ele alınmamış yönünü,Türkçe'nin Arapça üzerindeki etkisini ele alan bu çalışma, böyle bir boşluğu doldurmak gayesini taşımaktadır. Çalışmada, Arapça'da kullanılan Türkçe kelimelerin yanı sıra,...
Brill, 2005. — xviii, 270 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 78). This volume is the first comprehensive and systematic description of the dialect geography of the Arabic language which investigates the methods and insights developed in the European context and how these can be applied to the domain of Arabic. It also deals briefly with the...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 192 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical categories. Language variation is attributed to...
Georgetown University Press, 2000. — 462 p. This book is the first comparative study of the syntax of Arabic dialects, based on natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Kuwait. These four dialect regions are geographically diverse and representative of four distinct dialect groups. Kristen E. Brustad has adopted an analytical approach that is both functional...
Brill Academic, 1979. — 125 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics). The purpose of this study is primarily to assess and characterize the lexical relationships that exist among the major urban Syro-Lebanese varieties of Arabic. This constitutes a quantitative analysis of degrees of similarity (or differentiation). To achieve this quantitative analysis, an...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 296 p. — (Encyclopédie linguistique d’Al-Andalus. Vol. 1). Andalusi Arabic is not only the Arabic dialect of which we have the earliest relatively extensive records providing basic information for the study of mainly, though not exclusively, Western Neo-Arabic, but also the spoken language of the Southern and for centuries most advanced half of the Iberian...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 1507 p. — (Encyclopédie linguistique d’Al-Andalus. Vol. 2). Detailed accounts of the lexical constituent of any language, to which the grammatical array of rules is added in order to produce correct utterances, are a must in applied linguistic description, as only they allow the thorough retrieval of information contained therein. In the case of ‘dead’...
Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, MA, USA: Koninklijke Brill, 2013. — 296 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 102). — ISBN 978-90-04-23027-9. Andalusi Arabic is a close-knit bundle of Neo-Arabic dialects resulting from interference by Ibero-Romance stock and interaction of some Arabic dialects. These dialects are mostly Northern but there are...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 399 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 38). This volume brings together 22 contributions to the study of Arabic dialects, from the Maghreb to Iraq by authors, who are all well-known for their work in this field. It underscores the importance of different theoretical approaches to the study of dialects, developing new frameworks...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 379 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 319). Brought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods – acoustic and articulatory – to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 448 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 30). This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. Examines the understudied history of the spoken dialects of Arabic; s written by international...
Brill, 2013. — 257 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 69). Ingham of Arabia is a collection of twelve articles on modern Arabic dialectology contributed by an international collection of colleagues and pupils of Professor Ingham of the London School of Oriental and African Languages on the occasion of his retirement. Half the articles are concerned with Arabic...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. — 245 p. Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic presents several aspects concerning Modern Standard Arabic. It analyzes the different forms of lexical variation, and the causes for these variations. This starting point led to many other vital issues related to the present state of the Arabic Language such as language planning,...
Routledge, 1982. — 290 p. — (Library of Arabic Linguistics: Monograph 3). The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. Arabic linguists may be defined as: the scientific investigation and study of the Arabic language in all its aspects. This embraces the descriptive, comparative and historical aspects of the language. It also concerns...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1976. — 229 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica 236). The study of Arabic linguistics and Arabic dialectology is mainly limited to the study of classical Arabic, old Arabic dialects, Middle Arabic dialects, and some of the modern dialects. The aim of this work is to present an introduction to selected synchronic and diachronic aspects of...
Brill, 2017. — 757 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 92). Michael C.A. Macdonald is one of the great names of Arabian Studies. He pioneered the field of Ancient North Arabian and made invaluable contributions to the history of Arabia and the nomads of the Near East, their languages, and their scripts. This volume gathers thirty-two innovative contributions from...
Brill, 2022. — 416 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 108). This book is the very first comprehensive description of the Arabic variety spoken in the South-Western Iranian province of Khuzestan. It contains a detailed description of its phonology and morphology with numerous examples and a collection of authentic texts presented in transcription with an English...
Foreign Service Institute, 1976. — 50 pages. This Comparative Study provides help and guidance to persons who have learned either Levantine or Egyptian Arabic and who have need to use the other . The manual focuses on special features of pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and social usage. It helps the student recognize correspondences and directs attention to those sometimes...
Brill, 2000. — 290 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics). This volume deals with Judaeo-Jerusalem Arabic affected by Jewish socio-religious life, its interrelatedness with non-Jewish Jerusalem Arabic, and its erosion by youths through replacement by Hebrew. The socio-religious life of the Jewish community is first introduced, followed by descriptions of...
University of Texas – Austin, 2018. — 262 p. This dissertation proposes a model, based roughly on Dryer's (2014) REFERENCE HIERARCHY, that can systematically account for variation in the morphosyntactic strategies used to mark different degrees of definiteness and indefiniteness in the Arabic dialects. These primarily spoken varieties display a great deal of diversity in this...
Brill, 2012. — 359 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 64). In recent scholarship, the connection between Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic is studied in a more systematic way. The idea of studying these two varieties in one theoretical frame is quite new, and was initiated at the conferences of the International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic...
Монография. — Чебоксары: Среда, 2021. — 96 с. — ISBN 978-5-907411-82-1. В монографии рассматриваются средства выражения категории притяжательности в арабском языке и его диалектах. Проведенный анализ показал, что в первую очередь это притяжательные конструкции, а именно: идафные конструкции с именами существительными или прилагательными; в состав конструкций могут входить...
Монография. — Чебоксары: Среда, 2021. — 96 с. — ISBN 978-5-907411-82-1. В монографии рассматриваются средства выражения категории притяжательности в арабском языке и его диалектах. Проведенный анализ показал, что в первую очередь это притяжательные конструкции, а именно: идафные конструкции с именами существительными или прилагательными; в состав конструкций могут входить...
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