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ISBN 10: 0199290822 
ISBN 13: 9780199290826
Author: Jonathan Owens

A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the traditional conceptualization of an old, Classical language evolving into the contemporary Neo-Arabic dialects. Professor Owens combines established comparative linguistic methodology with a careful reading of the classical Arabic sources, such as the grammatical and exegetical traditions. He arrives at a richer and more complex picture of early Arabic language history than is current today and in doing so establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a concise, case by case basis, making it accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists.

A Linguistic History of Arabic 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: A Language and Its Secrets
1.1. Proto-Arabic, Basic Terms
1.2. The Early Sources
1.3. The Role of the Modern Dialects in Interpreting Arabic Language History
1.4. Scope of Work
1.5. Language Change and Language Transmission
1.6. A Critical Look at Some Truisms in Arabic Historical Linguistics
1.7. Summary of Chapters
2. Old Arabic, Neo-Arabic and Comparative Linguistics
2.1. A Method vs.a Logical Matrix
2.2. Stages in Arabic
2.3. Arabic and the Dialects
2.4. Neo-Arabic and the Neo-German school
2.5. The Past is the Present: A Modern Logical Matrix
2.6. The Arabic Tradition
2.7. Conclusion
3. Case and Proto-Arabic
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Case in the Afroasiatic Phylum
3.3. Classical Arabic
3.4. The Modern Dialects
3.5. Case and Caseless Arabic
4. Al-Idgham al-Kabiyr and Case Endings
4.1. Sharh Tayyibat al-Nashr: A Fifteenth-Century Treatise on Koranic Variants
4.2. Linguistic Attributes of ‘Major Assimilation’
4.3. Interpretive Summary
5. Pre-Diasporic Arabic in the Diaspora: A Statistical Approach to Arabic Language History
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Dialects, Procedure, Initial Results
5.3. Statistical Results and their Meaning
5.4. Interpretations
5.5. The Interpretation of Arabic Linguistic History
5.6. Statistics, Reconstruction, Hypothesis Testing
5.7. Three Caveats
5.8. Problems in Coding
6. Nigerian Arabic and Reconstruction of the Imperfect Verb
6.1. The Basic Imperfect Verb
6.2. Historical Significance
6.3. Epenthesis
6.4. The Old Arabic Evidence
6.5. The Reconstructions and the Classical Arabic Verbal Mode Endings
7. Imala
7.1. Imala in Old Arabic
7.2. Imala in the Modern Dialects
7.3. Reconstruction
8. Suffix Pronouns and Reconstruction
8.1. Pausal and Context Forms and Case Endings
8.2. Suffix Pronouns and Case Endings
8.3. Pronominal Suffixes, Case Endings and Epenthetic Vowels in Dialects
8.4. Syllable Structure
8.5. A Data Survey
8.6. Unproblematic Cases, Some Easy Generalizations
8.7. More Difficult Cases
8.8. Case Traces?
8.9. Harris Birkeland and Old Arabic Object Pronoun Reconstruction
9. Summary and Epilogue
9.1. Reconstruction and Continuity with Old Arabic
9.2. Epilogue

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