A Linguistic History of Arabic

Abstract

1. Introduction: A Language and its Secrets 2. Old Arabic, Neo-Arabic, and Comparative Linguistics 3. Case and Proto Arabic 4. Al-Idgham al-Kabiyr and Case Endings 5. Pre-Diasporic Arabic in the Diaspora: A Statistical Approach to Arabic Language History 6. Nigerian Arabic and Reconstruction of the Imperfect Verb 7. Imala 8. Suffix Pronouns and Reconstruction 9. Summary and Epilogue Appendix References Index

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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199290826.001.0001

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