The Classification of Arabic Dialects: Traditional Approaches, New Proposals, and Methodological Problems

• Other Authors: Bettega, Simone (Editor), Morano, Roberta (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Language; dialect classification; subgrouping; Sudanic Arabic; Egyptian Arabic; definiteness; indefiniteness; specificity; referentiality; determination; article systems; phonological typology; feature geometry; contrastivity; Arabic dialects; consonant reflexes; Mahdia Arabic; Maghribi Arabic; Tunisia; Sahel; urban dialects; Bedouin dialects; villageois dialects; Arabic dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Arabic; Baggara; comparative dialectology; historical dialectology; historical linguistics; dialectology; nomadism; methodology; geography; dialect geography; Arabic epigraphy; Tunisian Arabic; Libyan Arabic; copulas; syntactic isoglosses; cognate infinitive; Lebanese Arabic; typology; Semitic languages; palatalization; nasal; Cairene Arabic; sociophonetics; acoustic phonetics; Moroccan Arabic; Essaouira; Tafilalt; southern Morocco; dialect contact; urban; rural; gələt; qəltu; spoken Arabic; classification; Bedouin Arabic; Jordan; Masāʿīd; spoken Arabic varieties; Jordanian Arabic; Arabic linguistics; n/a
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The question of how to classify the different varieties of spoken Arabic is a long-standing problem in the fields of Arabic and Semitic linguistics, and it has been addressed by several authors and from a number of different perspectives. This collection of articles represents a further contribution...