The Oxford Handbook of Arabic LinguisticsOUP USA, 2013 M10 3 - 596 pages Until about 60 years ago, linguistic research on the Arabic language in the West was restricted to inquiries on Classical Arabic and the Classical tradition, and spoken Arabic dialects, with historical studies embedded within the broader field of Semitic languages. This situation is changing quickly, not only through the continuation of older research traditions, but also with the integration of new research fields and perspectives. With this expansion comes the danger of specialists in Arabic losing an overview of the field, and of leaving non-specialists without basic resources for evaluating domains of research which they may be interested in for comparative purposes. The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics will confront this problem by combining state-of-the-art overviews with essays on issues of perspective, controversy, and point of view. In twenty-four chapters, leading experts from around the world will lay out their own stances on controversial issues. The book not only evaluates ways in which questions and theories established in general linguistics and its sub-fields elucidate Arabic, but also challenges approaches which might result in accommodating Arabic to "non-Arabic" interpretations, and brings out the Arabic specificity of individual problems. The Handbook, in one compact volume, gives critical expression to a language which covers large populations and geographical areas, has a long written tradition, and has been the locus of major intellectual fervor and debate. |
Contents
An Introduction | 1 |
2 Phonetics | 23 |
3 Phonology | 45 |
4 Morphology | 71 |
Nahw and sarf | 92 |
6 The Syntax of Arabic from a Generative Perspective | 115 |
7 The Philological Approach to Arabic Grammar | 165 |
Pragmatics | 185 |
15 Borrowing | 349 |
16 Psycholinguistics | 369 |
17 SecondLanguage Acquisition | 392 |
18 The Arabic Writing System | 412 |
19 What Is Arabic? | 433 |
20 History | 451 |
The Nahda and Beyond | 472 |
22 Pidgins and Creoles | 495 |
9 Issues in Arabic Computational Linguistics | 213 |
10 Sociolinguistics | 241 |
Between Mother Tongue and Native Language | 264 |
12 Orality Culture and Language | 281 |
13 Dialectology | 300 |
14 Codeswitching and Related Issues Involving Arabic | 326 |
23 The Classical Arabic Lexicographical Tradition | 520 |
24 Modern Lexicography | 539 |
Index of Names | 561 |
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