Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods
used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia, codeswitching, language …

Covering all aspects of the history of Arabic, the Arabic linguistic tradition, Arabic dialects,
sociolinguistics and Arabic as a world language, this introductory guide is perfect for …

This is a description of one of the essential constituents of sentence structure in one reduced
linguistic system in use in various countries of the western coast of the Arab Gulf and Saudi …

Around the year 970, the famous Arabic grammarian Ibn Jinni (d. 1002) asked his Persian
teachers, what they thought about the Persian language. They replied that Arabic was vastly …

In 1874 the Reverend WG Lawes from the London Missionary Society came to Port Moresby
in New Guinea, together with his family. The reverend soon learned the local language Motu …

Evidence from Arabic-based pidgins, such as Bongor Arabic, Juba Arabic, Pidgin Madame,
and Gulf Pidgin Arabic, and from the Arabic-based creole Ki-Nubi, shows that in these …

East African Nubi has classic attributes of a creole—it was formed in a short period of time
and its structure diverges dramatically from its lexical source, Egyptian and Sudanic Arabic …

Arabic-based pidgins and creoles that are still spoken today represent a valuable
observatory for the dynamics of language change, as well as for the analysis of its …

In rudimentary communication with foreigners, the most basic need is to express wishes and
to give orders. Accordingly, verbal forms in foreigner-directed speech and pidgins often …

Le dictionnaire A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Leiden–New York–Köln, Brill, 1997) a été
conçu comme un complément lexical de quelques ouvrages antérieurs sur la grammaire de …