Arabic Dialectology: in Honour of Clive Holes on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, V. 53)

CONTENTS......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Bibliography of Clive Holes......Page 14
Poem: On Your Sixtieth --- by Said Abu Athera......Page 20
TOPICS IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS......Page 22
Indeterminacy and the Comparative Method: Arabic as a Model for Understanding the History of Aramaic --- Jonathan Owens......Page 24
From qualtu to galat: Diachronic Notes on Linguistic Adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic --- Heikki Palva......Page 38
The g/g-question in Egyptian Arabic Revisited --- Manfred Woidich and Liesbeth Zack
......Page 62
DESCRIPTIVE DIALECTOLOGY......Page 82
Words and Things --- Peter Behnstedt......Page 84
The Arabic Dialect of a Sawäwï Community of Northern Oman --- Domenyk Eades......Page 98
The Dialect of the Euphrates Bedouin, a Fringe Mesopotamian Dialect --- Bruce Ingham......Page 120
Quelques Données Sociolinguistiques sur l'Arabe Parlé à Damas à la Fin des Années Mille Neuf Cent Soixante-dix --- Jérôme Lentin......Page 130
CONTACT PHENOMENA......Page 192
Contact, Isolation, and Complexity in Arabic --- Peter Trudgill......Page 194
Loan Verbs in Arabic and the DO-construction --- Kees Versteegh......Page 208
SOCIAL DIALECTOLOGY......Page 222
When Najd Meets Hijaz: Dialect Contact in Jeddah --- Aziza Al-Essa......Page 224
"Big Bright Lights" Versus "Green and Pleasant Land"?: The Unhelpful Dichotomy of 'Urban' Versus 'Rural' in Dialectology --- David Britain......Page 244
The Variable (h) in Damascus: Analysis of a Stable Variable --- Hanadi Ismail......Page 270
CODE MIXING......Page 292
The Variety of Housewives and Cockroaches: Examining Code-choice in Advertisements in Egypt --- Reem Bassiouney......Page 294
Index......Page 306