Arabic dialectology
Subtitle: in honour of Clive Holes on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
By: edited by Enam Al-Wer and Rudolf de Jong.
Contributors: Al-Wer, Enam.; Jong, Rudolf de.; Holes, Clive, 1948-
Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics -- v. 53
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004172128
Subjects: Arabic language -- Dialects; Sociolinguistics -- Arab countries
Notes: Includes a bibliography of Clive Holes' published works.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Topics in historical linguistics. Indeterminacy and the comparative method: Arabic as a model for understanding the history of Aramaic / Jonathan Owens; title: From qultu to gulut: diachronic notes on linguistic adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic  / Heikki Palva; title: The g/g-question in Egyptian Arabic revisited / Wilfred Woidich and Liesbeth Zack; title: Descriptive dialectology. Words and things / Peter Behnstedt; title: The Arabic dialect of a Sawawi community of Northern Oman / Domenyk Eades; title: The dialect of the Euphrates bedouin, a fringe Mesopotamian dialect / Bruce Ingham; title: Quelques donnees sociolinguistiques sur l'arabe parle a damas a la fin des annees mille neuf cent soixante-dix / Jerome Lentin; title: Contact phenomena. Contact, isolation, and complexity in Arabic / Peter Trudgill; title: Loan verbs in Arabic and the DO-construction / Keees Versteegh; title: Social dialectology. When Najd meets Hijaz: dialect contact in Jeddah / Aziza Al-Essa; title: "Big bright lights" versus "green and pleasant land"?: the unhelpful dichotomy of 'urban' versus 'rural' in dialectology / David Britain; title: The variable (h) in Damascus: analysis of a stable variable / Hanadi Ismail; title: Code mixing. The variety of housewives and cockroaches: examining code-choice in advertisements in Egypt / Reem Bassiouney.