Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to First Edition
- Preface to Second Edition
- List of Figures and Maps
- List of Tables
- Note on Transcription and Glossing
- 1 The Study of Arabic in the West
- 2 Arabic as a Semitic Language
- 3 The Earliest Stages of Arabic
- 4 Arabic in the Pre-Islamic Period
- 5 The Development of Classical Arabic
- 6 The Structure of Arabic
- 7 The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
- 8 The Emergence of New Arabic
- 9 Middle Arabic
- 10 The Study of the Arabic Dialects
- 11 The Dialects of Arabic
- 12 The Emergence of Modern Standard Arabic
- 13 Diglossia
- 14 Bilingualism
- 15 Arabic as a Minority Language
- 16 Arabic Pidgins and Creoles
- 17 Arabic as a World Language
- Bibliography
- List of Abbreviations
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to First Edition
- Preface to Second Edition
- List of Figures and Maps
- List of Tables
- Note on Transcription and Glossing
- 1 The Study of Arabic in the West
- 2 Arabic as a Semitic Language
- 3 The Earliest Stages of Arabic
- 4 Arabic in the Pre-Islamic Period
- 5 The Development of Classical Arabic
- 6 The Structure of Arabic
- 7 The Arabic Linguistic Tradition
- 8 The Emergence of New Arabic
- 9 Middle Arabic
- 10 The Study of the Arabic Dialects
- 11 The Dialects of Arabic
- 12 The Emergence of Modern Standard Arabic
- 13 Diglossia
- 14 Bilingualism
- 15 Arabic as a Minority Language
- 16 Arabic Pidgins and Creoles
- 17 Arabic as a World Language
- Bibliography
- List of Abbreviations
- Index
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- The Arabic Language , pp. 382 - 410Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014