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Author:   Jonathan Owens (Professor of Arabic Linguistics, Professor of Arabic Linguistics, University of Bayreuth)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.10cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.80cm
Weight:   1.089kg
ISBN:  

9780190912802

ISBN 10:   0190912804
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   18 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. A house of sound structure, of marvelous form and proportion: An Introduction Jonathan Owens 2. Phonetics Mohamed Embarki 3. Phonology Sam Hellmuth 4. Morphology Robert Ratcliffe 5. Arabic Linguistic Tradition I: NaHw and Sarf Ramzi Baalbaki 6. The Syntax of Arabic from a Generative Perspective Elabbas Benmamoun and Lina Choueiri 7. The Philological Approach to Arabic Grammar Lutz Edzard 8. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition II: Beyond Grammar Pierre Larcher 9. Issues in Arabic Computational Linguistics Everhard Ditters 10. Sociolinguistics Enam Al-Wer 11. Arabic Folk Linguistics: Between Mother-tongue and Native Language Yasir Suleiman 12. Orality, Culture and Language Clive Holes 13. Dialects and Dialectology Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich, 14. Codeswitching and Codemixing Involving Arabic Abdelali Bentahila, Eirlys Davies, and Jonathan Owens 15. Borrowing Maarten Kossmann 16. Psycholinguistics Sami Boudelaa 17. Arabic Second Language Acquisition Karin Ryding 18. The Arabic Writing System Peter Daniels 19. What is Arabic? Jan Retsö 20. History Jonathan Owens 21. The Arabic Literary Language: The NahDa (and Beyond) Daniel Newman 22. Creoles and Pidgins Mauro Tosco and Stefano Manfredi 23. Lexicography in the Classical Era Solomon Sara, Georgetown University 24. Modern Lexicography Tim Buckwalter and Dilworth Parkinson

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Jonathan Owens is 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, Neighborhood and Ancestry: Variation in the Spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 1998, and A Linguistic History of Arabic, 2009.

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