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Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

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Arabic is one of the world's largest languages, spoken natively by nearly 300 million people. By strength of numbers alone Arabic is one of our most important languages, studied by scholars across many different academic fields and cultural settings. It is, however, a complex language rooted
in its own tradition of scholarship, constituted of varieties each imbued with unique cultural values and characteristic linguistic properties. Understanding its linguistics holistically is therefore a challenge.

The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics is a comprehensive, one-volume guide that deals with all major research domains which have been developed within Arabic linguistics. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, who both present state-of-the-art overviews and develop their own
critical perspectives. The Handbook begins with Arabic in its Semitic setting and ends with the modern dialects; it ranges across the traditional - the classical Arabic grammatical and lexicographical traditions--to the contemporary--Arabic sociolinguistics, Creole varieties and codeswitching,
psycholinguistics, and Arabic as a second language - while situating Arabic within current phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexicological theory. An essential reference work for anyone working within Arabic linguistics, the book brings together different approaches and scholarly
traditions, and provides analysis of current trends and directions for future research.


Author: Jonathan Owens
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/17/2013
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780199764136

About the Author

Jonathan Owens is retired Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He has experience in all aspects of Arabic linguistics, including the Classical linguistic tradition and contemporary spoken varieties, with extensive academic and research experience in the Middle
East, Africa, Europe, and the USA. His many publications include The Foundations of Grammar: An Introduction to Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory, 1988 (Benjamins), Neighborhood and Ancestry: Variation in the Spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 1998 (Benjamins), and A Linguistic History of Arabic,
2006/2009 (OUP). He is the 2018 recipient of the H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum special honor award for service to the Arabic language.

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