Middle Arabic and mixed Arabic : diachrony and synchrony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zack, Liesbeth, 1974-

Contributor:

Schippers, Arie.

Series:

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 64.

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Congresses--Dialects.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Congresses--Variation.

Languages in contact--Arab countries--Congresses.

Languages in contact.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : BRILL, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent scholarship, the connection between Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic is studied in a more systematic way. The idea of studying these two varieties in one theoretical frame is quite new, and was initiated at the conferences of the International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic (AIMA). At these conferences, the members of AIMA discuss the latest insights into the definition, terminology, and research methods of Middle and Mixed Arabic. Results of various discussions in this field are to be found in the present book, which contains articles describing and analysing the linguistic features of Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabic texts (folklore, religious and linguistic literature) as well as the matters of mixed language and diglossia. Contributors include: Berend Jan Dikken, Lutz Edzard, Jacques Grand’Henry, Bruno Halflants, Benjamin Hary, Rachel Hasson Kenat, Johannes den Heijer, Amr Helmy Ibrahim, Paolo La Spisa, Jérôme Lentin, Gunvor Mejdell, Arie Schippers, Yosef Tobi, Kees de Vreugd, Manfred Woidich, and Otto Zwartjes.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Middle and Mixed Arabic, A New Trend in Arabic Studies / Johannes den Heijer

Moyen arabe et variétés mixtes de l’arabe : premier essai de bibliographie, Supplément no 1 / Jérôme Lentin

Some Remarks about Middle Arabic and Saʿadya Gaon’s Arabic Translation of the Pentateuch in Manuscripts of Jewish, Samaritan, Coptic Christian, and Muslim Provenance / Berend Jan Dikken

Linguistic and Cultural Features of an Iraqi Judeo-Arabic Text of the qiṣaṣ al-ʾanbiyāʾ Genre / Lutz Edzard

Deux types de moyen arabe dans la version arabe du discours 41 de Grégoire de Nazianze ? / Jacques Grand’Henry

Présentation du livre Le Conte du Portefaix et des Trois Jeunes Femmes, dans le manuscrit de Galland (XIVe–XVe siècles) / Bruno Halflants

Judeo-Arabic as a Mixed Language / Benjamin Hary

The Story of Zayd and Kaḥlāʾ—A Folk Story in a Judaeo-Arabic Manuscript / Rachel Hasson Kenat

Towards an Inventory of Middle and Mixed Arabic Features: The Inscriptions of Deir Mar Musa (Syria) as a Case Study / Johannes den Heijer

Qui est arabophone? Les variétés de l’arabe dans la définition d’une compétence native / Amr Helmy Ibrahim

Perspectives ecdotiques pour textes en moyen arabe : L’exemple des traités théologiques de Sulaymān al-Ġazzī / Paolo La Spisa

Normes orthographiques en moyen arabe : Sur la notation du vocalisme bref / Jérôme Lentin

Playing the Same Game? Notes on Comparing Spoken Contemporary Mixed Arabic and (Pre)Modern Written Middle Arabic / Gunvor Mejdell

Middle Arabic in Moshe Darʿī’s Judaeo-Arabic Poems / Arie Schippers

Written Judeo-Arabic: Colloquial versus Middle Arabic / Yosef Tobi

Yefet ben ʿEli’s Commentary on the Book of Zechariah / Kees de Vreugd

Damascus Arabic According to the Compendio of Lucas Caballero (1709) / Otto Zwartjes and Manfred Woidich

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Papers in English and French.

"The articles contained in this volume are based on papers read at the Second Conference of the Association internationale pour l'etude du moyen arabe et des varietes mixtes de l'arabe (AIMA), which was held at the University of Amsterdam in 2007."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613591456

9781280496226

1280496223

9789004228047

9004228047

OCLC:

794328537

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004228047 DOI