Arabic Historical Dialectology

Clive Holes was Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford until 2014, and is now Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Magdalen College. Prior to coming to Oxford he held positions at the University of Salford and University of Cambridge. He has written extensively on the Arabic language, its dialectology, and sociolinguistics, including Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia (three volumes; Brill, 2001-2016), and Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties (Longman, 1995; revised edition Georgetown University Press, 2004).

This book is highly welcomed... It will certainly become a key reference tool... I highly recommended it to students and linguists interested in the history of Arabic.

• List of maps and tablesAbbreviationsTransliteration and transcription conventionsAbout the contributors1: Clive Holes: Introduction2: Jordi Aguadé: The Maghrebi dialects of Arabic3: Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich: The formation of the Egyptian Arabic dialect area4: Ignacio Ferrando: The adnominal linker -an in Andalusi Arabic, with special reference to the poetry of Ibn Quzman5: Clive Holes: The Arabic dialects of the Gulf: A sketch of their historical and sociolinguistic development6: Geoffrey Khan: Judaeo-Arabic7: Jérôme Lentin: The Levant8: Jonathan Owens: Dialects (speech communities), the apparent past, and grammaticalization: Towards an understanding of the history of Arabic9: Stephan Procházka: The Northern Fertile Crescent10: Catherine Taine-Cheikh: Historical and typological approaches to Mauritanian and West Saharan Arabic11: Janet Watson: South Arabian and Arabic dialectsGlossaryReferencesIndex