Arabic in context : celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University / edited by Ahmad al-Jallad, Leiden University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Al-Jallad, Ahmad.

Series:

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 89.

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--History--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (527 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter / Ahmad Al-Jallad

Arabic in Its Semitic Context / John Huehnergard

How Conservative and How Innovating is Arabic? / Andrzej Zaborski

The ʿAyn ʿAbada Inscription Thirty Years Later: A Reassessment / Manfred Kropp

Aramaic or Arabic? The Nabataeo-Arabic Script and the Language of the Inscriptions Written in This Script / Laïla Nehmé

Graeco-Arabica I: The Southern Levant / Ahmad Al-Jallad

Traces of South Arabian Causative-Reflexive Verbal Stem in Arabic Lexicon? / Daniele Mascitelli

Arabic allaḏī / illi as Subordinators: An Alternative Perspective / Lutz Edzard

Raphelengius and the Yellow Cow (Q 2:69): Early Translations of Hebrew ˀādōm into Arabic ˀaṣfar / 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 Qurʾānic (and Pre-Islamic) Arabic / Johnny Cheung

Traces of Bilingualism/Multilingualism in Qurʾānic Arabic / Guillaume Dye

A Syriac Reading of the Qurʾān? The Case of Sūrat al-Kawṯar / Martin F.J. Baasten

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 / Naʿama Pat-El

The Arabic Strata in Awjila Berber / Marijn van Putten and Adam Benkato

Indexes / Ahmad Al-Jallad.

Notes:

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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004343047

9004343040

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004343047 DOI