{"product_id":"arabic-historical-dialectology-linguistic-and-sociolinguistic-approaches-9780198701378","title":"Arabic Historical Dialectology: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches","description":"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. It specifically investigates the evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, in contrast to the many existing\u003cbr\u003estudies that focus on written Classical or Modern Standard Arabic. The volume begins with a discursive introduction that deals with important issues in the general scholarly context, including the indigenous myth and probable reality of the history of Arabic; Arabic dialect geography and typology;\u003cbr\u003etypes of internally and externally motivated linguistic change; social indexicalisation; and pidginization and creolization in Arabic-speaking communities. Most chapters then focus on developments in a specific region - Mauritania, the Maghreb, Egypt, the Levant, the Northern Fertile Crescent, the\u003cbr\u003eGulf, and South Arabia - with one exploring Judaeo-Arabic, a group of varieties historically spread over a wider area. The remaining two chapters in the volume examine individual linguistic features of particular historical interest and controversy, specifically the origin and evolution of the \u003cem\u003eb-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003everbal prefix, and the adnominal linker \u003cem\u003e-an\/-in\u003c\/em\u003e. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the linguistic and social history of Arabic as well as to comparative linguists interested in topics such as linguistic typology and language change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clive Holes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198701378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClive Holes was Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford until 2014, and is now Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Magdalen College. Prior to coming to Oxford he held positions at the University of Salford and University of Cambridge. He has written\u003cbr\u003eextensively on the Arabic language, its dialectology, and sociolinguistics, including \u003cem\u003eDialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia\u003c\/em\u003e (three volumes; Brill, 2001-2016), and \u003cem\u003eModern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties\u003c\/em\u003e (Longman, 1995; revised edition Georgetown University Press, 2004).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40058165035123,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_bc93b93c-510b-40c5-ac9a-03f231e0548a.jpg?v=1651586115","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/arabic-historical-dialectology-linguistic-and-sociolinguistic-approaches-9780198701378","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}