Pages: 316
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2006)
Quality: good: scanned book
A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich and complex picture of early Arabic language history and establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a manner accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists.
* Scholarly but largely non-technical style
* Arguments can be followed by anyone with a basic background in Arabic and Linguistics
* Deploys statistical methods to solve historical linguistic problems
* Gives equal weight to classical sources and mode data
* Argument is framed within from the intellectual history of the discipline
ISBN 10: 0-19-929082-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-19-929082-6
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2006)
Quality: good: scanned book
A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich and complex picture of early Arabic language history and establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a manner accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists.
* Scholarly but largely non-technical style
* Arguments can be followed by anyone with a basic background in Arabic and Linguistics
* Deploys statistical methods to solve historical linguistic problems
* Gives equal weight to classical sources and mode data
* Argument is framed within from the intellectual history of the discipline
ISBN 10: 0-19-929082-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-19-929082-6