Research Catalog

Title

Modern Arabic : structures, functions, and varieties / Clive Holes.

Author

Holes, Clive, 1948-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xix, 419 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Georgetown classics in Arabic language and linguistics

Uniform Title

Georgetown classics in Arabic language and linguistics.

Subject

• Arabic language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > English

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-406) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Where is Arabic spoken? -- Varieties of Arabic -- Aims of this book -- A brief history of Arabic -- Arabic as a Semitic language -- Arabic at the dawn of Islam -- Pre-Islamic poetry -- The Koran -- Evidence from the modern bedouin dialects -- The spread of Arabic -- The language situation on the eve of the conquests -- The early linguistic results of the conquests -- Middle Arabic, the modern dialects and the evolution of modern standard Arabic -- The contemporary linguistic situation -- Phonology -- Verb morphology -- Noun morphology -- Beyond root and pattern : pronouns and deictics -- Syntax and Semantics I : phrase structure -- Syntax and Semantics II : sentence structure -- Lexical and stylistic developments -- Language level.

ISBN

1589010221 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004005616

OCLC

• 54677538
• SCSB-10513945

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library