Middle Arabic and mixed Arabic
Subtitle: diachrony and synchrony
By: edited by Liesbeth Zack and Arie Schippers
Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics -- 64
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9789004222298
Subjects: Congresses; Arab countries; Languages in contact; Dialects; Arabic language; Variation
Description: In recent scholarship, the connection between Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic is studied in a more systematic way. The idea of studying these two varieties in one theoretical frame is quite new, and was initiated at the conferences of the International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic (AIMA). At these conferences, the members of AIMA discuss the latest insights into the definition, terminology, and research methods of Middle and Mixed Arabic. Results of various discussions in this field are to be found in the present book, which contains articles describing and analysing the linguistic features of Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabic texts (folklore, religious and linguistic literature) as well as the matters of mixed language and diglossia.
Notes: Papers in English and French.

"The articles contained in this volume are based on papers read at the Second Conference of the Association internationale pour l'etude du moyen arabe et des varietes mixtes de l'arabe (AIMA), which was held at the University of Amsterdam in 2007."

Includes bibliographical references and index.