The Classification of Arabic Dialects: Traditional Approaches, New Proposals, and Methodological Problems

The question of how to classify the different varieties of spoken Arabic is a long-standing problem in the fields of Arabic and Semitic linguistics, and it has been addressed by several authors and from a number of different perspectives. This collection of articles represents a further contribution...

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Format:	Book
Language:	English
Subjects:	acoustic phonetics Arabic Arabic dialectology Arabic dialects Arabic epigraphy Arabic linguistics article systems Baggara Bedouin Arabic Bedouin dialects Cairene Arabic classification cognate infinitive comparative dialectology consonant reflexes contrastivity copulas definiteness determination dialect classification dialect contact dialect geography dialectology Egyptian Arabic Essaouira feature geometry geography gələt historical dialectology historical linguistics indefiniteness Jordan Jordanian Arabic Language and Linguistics Lebanese Arabic Libyan Arabic Maghribi Arabic Mahdia Arabic Masāʿīd methodology Moroccan Arabic n/a nasal nomadism palatalization phonological typology qəltu referentiality rural Sahel Semitic languages Sociolinguistics sociophonetics southern Morocco specificity spoken Arabic spoken Arabic varieties subgrouping Sudanic Arabic syntactic isoglosses Tafilalt Tunisia Tunisian Arabic typology urban urban dialects villageois dialects
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