Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic - Diachrony and Synchrony

Drawing on the recent discussions on Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic, this book offers a comprehensive survey of the various fields of Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabic texts (folklore, religious and linguistic literature) as well as the matters of mixed language and diglossia.

About the author

E.W.A. (Liesbeth) Zack, PhD (2009), is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research interests are: historical sources of the Egyptian Arabic dialects, Middle Arabic, and modern Egyptian Arabic.

Arie Schippers, PhD (1988), Semitic and Romance languages student (1966-74) and researcher (1974-76) at Leiden University, taught Hebrew at Nijmegen University (1976-77), and Arabic at the University of Amsterdam (1977-2012). He has published on Arabic and Hebrew literatures in connection with Romance literatures.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2012
• EAN: 9789004222298
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22229-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 684 g
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics