Arabic in context : celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University
Ahmad Al-Jallad (Editor)
The writing of Arabic's linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The present volume seeks to catalyse a dialogue between scholars in various fields who are interested in Arabic's past and to illustrate how much there is to be gained by looking beyond the traditional sources and methods. It contains 15 innovative studies ranging from pre-Islamic epigraphy to the modern spoken dialect, and from comparative Semitics to Middle Arabic. The combination of these perspectives hopes to stand as an important methodological intervention, encouraging a shift in the way Arabic?'s linguistic history is written
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 89, volume 89
Conference papers and proceedings
xix, 507 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9789004343030, 9004343032
967854618
Online version:
What is Arabic?
Arabic in its Semitic context / John Huehnergard
How conservative and how innovating is Arabic? / Andrzej Zaborski
Arabic in its epigraphic context. The 'ayn 'abada inscription forty years later: a reassessment / Manfred Kropp
Aramaic or Arabic? the Nabataeo-Arabic script and the language of the inscriptions written in this script / Laila Nehme
Graeco-Arabica I: the Southern Levant / Ahmad al-Jallad
Classical Arabic in context. Traces of South Arabian causative-reflexive verbal stem in Arabic lexicon? / Daniele Mascitelli
Arabic alladi / IIIi as Subordinators: An Alternative Perspective / Lutz Edzard
Raphelengius vindicatus: the earliest translations of Hebrew Hebrew_start 'dm Hebrew_end into Arabic / Jordi Ferrer i Serra
Terminative-adverbial and locative-adverbial endings in Semitic languages: a reassessment and its implications for Arabic / Francesco Grande
On the middle Iranian borrowings in Qur'anic (and pre-Islamic) Arabic / Johnny Cheung
Qur'anic Arabic in context. Traces of bilingualism/multilingualism in Qur'anic Arabic / Guillaume Dye
A Syriac reading of the Qur'an? the case of Surat al-Kawtar / Martin F.J. Baasten
Middle and modern Arabic in context. Orthography and reading in medieval Judaeo-Arabic / Geoffrey Khan
Linguistic history and the history of Arabic: a speech communities approach / Alexander Magidow
Digging up archaic features: "neo-Arabic" and comparative Semitic in the quest for proto Arabic / Na'ama Pat-El
The Arabic strata in Awjila Berber / Marijn van Putten and Adam Benkato
Papers presented at a colloquium held in November 2013 in Leiden on the theme of "Arabic in Context," organised on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Leiden's chair in Arabic