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The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 608

The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.

Arabic and contact-induced change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 702

Arabic and contact-induced change

This volume offers a synthesis of current expertise on contact-induced change in Arabic and its neighbours, with thirty chapters written by many of the leading experts on this topic. Its purpose is to showcase the current state of knowledge regarding the diverse outcomes of contacts between Arabic and other languages, in a format that is both accessible and useful to Arabists, historical linguists, and students of language contact.

Language Contact in Ancient Egypt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Language Contact in Ancient Egypt

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient Egypt before the Greco-Roman period (4th millennium BCE–4th c. BCE). It gives a survey of the historical evidence of linguistic interference of Egyptian with languages in Africa, the Near East and the Mediterranean, discusses the different attested phenomena of language contact and offers a case study of foreign language communities in ancient Egypt. Detailed indexes makes this book a rich source of linguistic information for general linguistics and neighboring disciplines.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

This collection of symposium papers on Arabic linguistics deals with diverse topics, including: Arabic and constraints on codeswitching; verb embeddings and collocations in codeswitching; ellipsis in child language acquisition; clitic left dislocation; and the derivation of imperatives.

Mixed Styles in Spoken Arabic in Egypt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502

Mixed Styles in Spoken Arabic in Egypt

An in-depth investigation of a kind of spoken Arabic where speakers combine features from standard Arabic and the vernacular, producing 'mixed styles' - which show certain patterns of distribution, but also variable usage across speakers. The framework represents a comparative sociolinguistic perspective.

Aethiopica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 624

Aethiopica

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics: Eg-Lan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 736

Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics: Eg-Lan

The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics is a major multi-volume reference work. It is a unique collaboration of hundreds of scholars from around the world and covers all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic, dealing with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic).

Folia orientalia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

Folia orientalia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Studia Orientalia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 612

Studia Orientalia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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