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Book SynopsisArabic is one of the world''s largest languages, spoken natively by nearly 300 million people. By strength of numbers alone Arabic is one of our most important languages, studied by scholars across many different academic fields and cultural settings. It is, however, a complex language rooted in its own tradition of scholarship, constituted of varieties each imbued with unique cultural values and characteristic linguistic properties. Understanding its linguistics holistically is therefore a challenge. The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics is a comprehensive, one-volume guide that deals with all major research domains which have been developed within Arabic linguistics. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, who both present state-of-the-art overviews and develop their own critical perspectives. The Handbook begins with Arabic in its Semitic setting and ends with the modern dialects; it ranges across the traditional--the classical Arabic grammatical and lexicographica
Table of Contents1. A house of sound structure, of marvelous form and proportion: An Introduction Jonathan Owens 2. Phonetics Mohamed Embarki 3. Phonology Sam Hellmuth 4. Morphology Robert Ratcliffe 5. Arabic Linguistic Tradition I: NaHw and Sarf Ramzi Baalbaki 6. The Syntax of Arabic from a Generative Perspective Elabbas Benmamoun and Lina Choueiri 7. The Philological Approach to Arabic Grammar Lutz Edzard 8. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition II: Beyond Grammar Pierre Larcher 9. Issues in Arabic Computational Linguistics Everhard Ditters 10. Sociolinguistics Enam Al-Wer 11. Arabic Folk Linguistics: Between Mother-tongue and Native Language Yasir Suleiman 12. Orality, Culture and Language Clive Holes 13. Dialects and Dialectology Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich, 14. Codeswitching and Codemixing Involving Arabic Abdelali Bentahila, Eirlys Davies, and Jonathan Owens 15. Borrowing Maarten Kossmann 16. Psycholinguistics Sami Boudelaa 17. Arabic Second Language Acquisition Karin Ryding 18. The Arabic Writing System Peter Daniels 19. What is Arabic? Jan Retsö 20. History Jonathan Owens 21. The Arabic Literary Language: The NahDa (and Beyond) Daniel Newman 22. Creoles and Pidgins Mauro Tosco and Stefano Manfredi 23. Lexicography in the Classical Era Solomon Sara, Georgetown University 24. Modern Lexicography Tim Buckwalter and Dilworth Parkinson
