Communal Dialects in Baghdad
Published on 3. April 2024
Book
Hardback
230 pages
978-90-04-68979-4 (ISBN)
Description
Haim Blanc's Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the years 1957-1962, this book portaits the extensive regional continuum of modern spoken Arabic stretching across parts of Mesopotamia and N. Syria, evinced by the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speech communities in Baghdad.
Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers.
Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
466 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-68979-4 (9789004689794)
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Persons
Haim Blanc, Ph.D. (1953), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was Professor of Arabic linguistics at that university. He has published monographs and articles on Arabic dialectology, modern Hebrew, and the traditional Arab grammarians.
Content
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Biography of Haim Blanc
Editorial Preamble
?Alexander Borg
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Map: The Mesopotamian Dialect Area
1 Introduction
?1.1?Aim and Scope
?1.2?Sources
?1.3?The Mesopotamian Dialect Area
?1.4?The Baghdad Situation
2 Communal Dialects in the Arab World
?2.1?Social Dialects
?2.2?Communal Differentiation in Arabic
3 Phonology
?3.1?Procedure and Notation
?3.2?Consonants
?3.3?Vowels
?3.4?Stress
?3.5?Consonant Clusters and Anaptyxis
4 Morphology
?4.1?Procedure and Notation
?4.2?The Pronoun
?4.3?The Feminine Suffix
?4.4?Some Other Suffixes
?4.5?The Noun
?4.6?The Numerals
?4.7?The Participle
?4.8?The Verb
?4.9?Other Morpheme Classes
5 Some Syntactic Features
?5.1?Introductory
?5.2?The Postpositional Copula
?5.3?Absence of Article
?5.4?Anticipatory Pronoun Suffix Plus L
6 Some Lexical Features
?6.1?Introductory
?6.2?Basic Vocabulary
?6.3?Interrogatives and Demonstratives
?6.4?Elements of Non-Arabic Origin
?6.5?Selected Lexical Items
7 Summary and Conclusion
?7.1?Summary of Findings
?7.2?Characterization of the Dialects
Abbreviations Used in References and Notes
References Cited
Notes
Index
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Biography of Haim Blanc
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?Alexander Borg
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Map: The Mesopotamian Dialect Area
1 Introduction
?1.1?Aim and Scope
?1.2?Sources
?1.3?The Mesopotamian Dialect Area
?1.4?The Baghdad Situation
2 Communal Dialects in the Arab World
?2.1?Social Dialects
?2.2?Communal Differentiation in Arabic
3 Phonology
?3.1?Procedure and Notation
?3.2?Consonants
?3.3?Vowels
?3.4?Stress
?3.5?Consonant Clusters and Anaptyxis
4 Morphology
?4.1?Procedure and Notation
?4.2?The Pronoun
?4.3?The Feminine Suffix
?4.4?Some Other Suffixes
?4.5?The Noun
?4.6?The Numerals
?4.7?The Participle
?4.8?The Verb
?4.9?Other Morpheme Classes
5 Some Syntactic Features
?5.1?Introductory
?5.2?The Postpositional Copula
?5.3?Absence of Article
?5.4?Anticipatory Pronoun Suffix Plus L
6 Some Lexical Features
?6.1?Introductory
?6.2?Basic Vocabulary
?6.3?Interrogatives and Demonstratives
?6.4?Elements of Non-Arabic Origin
?6.5?Selected Lexical Items
7 Summary and Conclusion
?7.1?Summary of Findings
?7.2?Characterization of the Dialects
Abbreviations Used in References and Notes
References Cited
Notes
Index