商品簡介
Presents 40 years worth of papers on Arabic linguistics by a pioneering American linguist, addressing issues of phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Sections on diachronica, phonology, register and genre, and general issues include book reviews and articles on areas such as the Arabic koine, Arabic baby talk, and Arabic as a measure of Arab society. An introduction provides a biographical sketch with excerpts from interviews. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
R. Kirk Belnap, Ph.D. (1991), University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University and Executive Director of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic. He has published on Arabic agreement variation and the history of Arabic.Niloofar Haeri, Ph.D. (1991), University of Pennsylvania, is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her many publications on Arabic sociolinguistics include The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class, and Education (Kegan Paul, 1996).
