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BL
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802525
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b622573
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| Title & Author
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Arabic in context : : celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University /\ edited by Ahmad al-Jallad, Leiden University.
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| Publication Statement
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Leiden ;Boston :: Brill,, 2017.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ;; volume 89
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xix, 507 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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9789004343030 (hardback : alk. paper)
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9789004343047 (ebook)
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| Notes
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Papers presented at a colloquium held in November 2013 in Leiden on the theme of "Arabic in Context," organised on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Leiden's chair in Arabic.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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What is Arabic? -- Arabic in its Semitic context / John Huehnergard -- How conservative and how innovating is Arabic? / Andrzej Zaborski -- Arabic in its epigraphic context. The 'ayn 'abada inscription forty years later: a reassessment / Manfred Kropp -- Aramaic or Arabic? the Nabataeo-Arabic script and the language of the inscriptions written in this script / Laila Nehme -- Graeco-Arabica I: the Southern Levant / Ahmad al-Jallad -- Classical Arabic in context. Traces of South Arabian causative-reflexive verbal stem in Arabic lexicon? / Daniele Mascitelli -- Arabic alladi / IIIi as Subordinators: An Alternative Perspective / Lutz Edzard -- Raphelengius vindicatus: the earliest translations of Hebrew Hebrew_start 'dm Hebrew_end into Arabic / Jordi Ferrer i Serra -- Terminative-adverbial and locative-adverbial endings in Semitic languages: a reassessment and its implications for Arabic / Francesco Grande -- On the middle Iranian borrowings in Qur'anic (and pre-Islamic) Arabic / Johnny Cheung -- Qur'anic Arabic in context. Traces of bilingualism/multilingualism in Qur'anic Arabic / Guillaume Dye -- A Syriac reading of the Qur'an? the case of Surat al-Kawtar / Martin F.J. Baasten -- Middle and modern Arabic in context. Orthography and reading in medieval Judaeo-Arabic / Geoffrey Khan -- Linguistic history and the history of Arabic: a speech communities approach / Alexander Magidow -- Digging up archaic features: "neo-Arabic" and comparative Semitic in the quest for proto Arabic / Na'ama Pat-El -- The Arabic strata in Awjila Berber / Marijn van Putten and Adam Benkato.
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| Subject
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Arabic language, Congresses.
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Arabic language-- History, Congresses.
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| Dewey Classification
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492.709
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| LC Classification
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PJ6075.A725 2017
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| Added Entry
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Al-Jallad, Ahmad
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