Christophe Pereira – författare

Andalusi Arabic is not only the Arabic dialect of which we have the earliest relatively extensive records providing basic information for the study of mainly, though not exclusively, Western Neo-Arabic, but also the spoken language of the Southern and for centuries most advanced half of the Iberian Peninsula, which had a considerable impact, most often not sufficiently gauged and surveyed by Western scholars, on the development of all kinds of Medieval and Modern culture and science.

The present manual describes the different grammatical levels of this language, phonemics, morphology and syntax, in addition to the main features of its mixed lexicon and provides some text samples of diverse periods and locations, plus the usual indices and technical data.

As the fourth survey of this nature by the same author since 1977, prompted by awareness of a certain lack of interest in a subject which was by no means exhausted and fully mastered, it contains the results of several decades of untiring endeavours and minute analysis of facts detected not only in Arabic records, but also hidden in the rich array of related witnesses hidden in the Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula.

Andalusi Arabic is not only the Arabic dialect of which we have the earliest relatively extensive records providing basic information for the study of mainly, though not exclusively, Western Neo-Arabic, but also the spoken language of the Southern and for centuries most advanced half of the Iberian Peninsula, which had a considerable impact, most often not sufficiently gauged and surveyed by Western scholars, on the development of all kinds of Medieval and Modern culture and science.

The present manual describes the different grammatical levels of this language, phonemics, morphology and syntax, in addition to the main features of its mixed lexicon and provides some text samples of diverse periods and locations, plus the usual indices and technical data.

As the fourth survey of this nature by the same author since 1977, prompted by awareness of a certain lack of interest in a subject which was by no means exhausted and fully mastered, it contains the results of several decades of untiring endeavours and minute analysis of facts detected not only in Arabic records, but also hidden in the rich array of related witnesses hidden in the Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula.

L’étude détaillée du lexique de n’importe quelle langue, à laquelle il faut systématiquement ajouter la somme des règles grammaticales, est une condition nécessaire à une description linguistique appliquée et la seule façon de bien pouvoir comprendre les textes; à plus forte raison, dans le cas de langues ou de dialectes morts, puisqu’on ne peut plus interroger de locuteurs natifs: tel est le cas de l’arabe andalou, utilisé dans la Péninsule Ibérique entre le huitième et le dix-septième siècle, qui a permis la diffusion d’une littérature populaire en prose et en vers très riche et intéressante, ainsi que des documents légaux et des lettres personnelles contenant parfois des informations d’une grande valeur historique.

Ces matériaux ont été étudiés pendant le dix-neuvième siècle et surtout le vingtième siècle, mais on a remarqué une certaine diminution des efforts dans ce domaine, de telle sorte qu’un inventaire définitif de ces connaissances pour la linguistique, la littérature et l’histoire de cette période en l’Europe Occidentale n’est pas encore atteinte.

Ce dictionnaire sera donc très utile à tous ceux qui s’occupent de ces aspects de notre civilisation, des deux points de vue: occidental et islamologique.

L’étude détaillée du lexique de n’importe quelle langue, à laquelle il faut systématiquement ajouter la somme des règles grammaticales, est une condition nécessaire à une description linguistique appliquée et la seule façon de bien pouvoir comprendre les textes; à plus forte raison, dans le cas de langues ou de dialectes morts, puisqu’on ne peut plus interroger de locuteurs natifs: tel est le cas de l’arabe andalou, utilisé dans la Péninsule Ibérique entre le huitième et le dix-septième siècle, qui a permis la diffusion d’une littérature populaire en prose et en vers très riche et intéressante, ainsi que des documents légaux et des lettres personnelles contenant parfois des informations d’une grande valeur historique.

Ces matériaux ont été étudiés pendant le dix-neuvième siècle et surtout le vingtième siècle, mais on a remarqué une certaine diminution des efforts dans ce domaine, de telle sorte qu’un inventaire définitif de ces connaissances pour la linguistique, la littérature et l’histoire de cette période en l’Europe Occidentale n’est pas encore atteinte.

Ce dictionnaire sera donc très utile à tous ceux qui s’occupent de ces aspects de notre civilisation, des deux points de vue: occidental et islamologique.

The diachronic description of a language is not complete unless one considers the linguistic substrata and adstrata spoken beforehand by a population that then came to coexist with the language in question. Thus, the fourth volume of the Encyclopédie provides a detailed description of the influence exerted by the Romance substratum and the Berber adstratum on Andalusian Arabic dialects.

The diachronic description of a language is not complete unless one considers the linguistic substrata and adstrata spoken beforehand by a population that then came to coexist with the language in question. Thus, the fourth volume of the Encyclopédie provides a detailed description of the influence exerted by the Romance substratum and the Berber adstratum on Andalusian Arabic dialects.

This volume is dedicated to the study of names of places and people on the Iberian peninsula that are of Arabic origin. These names are among the most evident traces that Andalusi Arabic was spoken there for centuries. The volume provides two separate inventories (of toponyms and anthroponyms), although it must be recognized that the establishment of exhaustive catalogs is impossible today. Therefore the goal is to improve our knowledge in this area of Hispanic linguistics.

This fifth volume of the Encyclopédie Linguistique d’Al-Andalus can also be used as research material for Romance historical linguistics and, of course, as a source to find new dialect isoglosses and grammatical, phonetic, and morphological features within the Andalusian Arabic bundle.