Communal dialects in Baghdad / by Haim Blanc ; revised reprint curated by David Blanc, Alexander Borg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanc, Haim, author.

Contributor:

Blanc, David, editor.

Borg, Alexander, editor.

Wexler, Paul, writer of foreword.

Series:

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 111.

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Dialects--Iraq--Baghdad.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

XXXIV, 194 pages : map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Summary:

"Haim Blanc's Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the years 1957-1962, this book portaits the extensive regional continuum of modern spoken Arabic stretching across parts of Mesopotamia and N. Syria, evinced by the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speech communities in Baghdad. Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-165) and index.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: Blanc, Haim. Cambridge : Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, 1964 (ix, 204 p., map, 21 cm.)

Other Format:

Electronic version : Blanc, Haim. Communal dialects in Baghdad.

ISBN:

9789004689794

9004689796

OCLC:

1409397845