Linguistic variety of Judaeo-Arabic in letters from the Cairo genizah / by Esther-Miriam Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Esther-Miriam.

Series:

Etudes sur le judaisme medieval ; t. 41.

Etudes sur le judaisme medieval ; t. 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judeo-Arabic language.

Arabic language--Dialects.

Arabic language.

Jews--Correspondence.

Jews.

Cairo Genizah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cairo Genizah has preserved a vast number of medieval and post-medieval letters written in the Jewish variety of Arabic. The linguistic peculiarities of these letters provide an invaluable source for the understanding of the history of the Arabic language and the development of Arabic dialects. This work compares and contrasts various linguistic features of Judaeo-Arabic letters from different periods, and is one of the first studies to present a comprehensive linguistic investigation into non-literary Judaeo-Arabic. Its main focus is to provide an extensive diachronic linguistic description, while distinguishing between features of epistolary Arabic and vernacular phenomena. This study should be of interest to anyone working on the Arabic language, sociolinguistics, general historical linguistics and language typology. \'...in the extant volume she [Wagner] has clearly demonstrated that Judeo-Arabic letters are to be viewed as primary source material, capturing important aspects of language understanding of Jews and Judaism in the medieval and early modern Islamic world, and therefore providing essential insights into the linguistic function of a substandard language or ethnolect like Judeo-Arabic.\' Wout van Bekkum, BiOr numbers LXX 3/4

Contents:

Preliminary Material / E.-M. Wagner

Chapter One. Introduction / E.-M. Wagner

Chapter Two. General Methodology / E.-M. Wagner

Chapter Three. Corpus / E.-M. Wagner

Chapter Four. Phonology And Orthography / E.-M. Wagner

Chapter Five. Morphology / E.-M. Wagner

Chapter Six. Letter Style, Presentation, And Lexicon / E.-M. Wagner

Chapter Seven. Syntax / E.-M. Wagner

Chapter Eight. General Trends In The Judaeo-Arabic Letters From The Genizah / E.-M. Wagner

Bibliography / E.-M. Wagner

Index / E.-M. Wagner

Classmarks / E.-M. Wagner

Plates / E.-M. Wagner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-78714-4

9786612787140

90-04-19368-5

OCLC:

670484337

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004187764.i-270 DOI