Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
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Subject: Language And Linguistics
Managing Editors Online Edition: Lutz Edzard and Rudolf de Jong
The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches in order to be as objective and versatile as possible. The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online is cross-searchable and cross-referenced, and is equipped with a browsable index. All relevant fields in Arabic linguistics, both general and language specific are covered and the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online includes topics from interdisciplinary fields, such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and computer science.
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The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches in order to be as objective and versatile as possible. The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online is cross-searchable and cross-referenced, and is equipped with a browsable index. All relevant fields in Arabic linguistics, both general and language specific are covered and the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online includes topics from interdisciplinary fields, such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and computer science.
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Locatives
(4,858 words)
1. Introduction In Arabic, as in many other languages, sentences with locative predicates, existentials, and possessives (
have-type predicates) share many syntactic features. Crosslinguistic research shows that formal differences among these sentence types are restricted and highly predictable. Clark (1978), for example, groups them as ‘ locationals’, and Freeze (1992) considers them part of a ‘universal locative paradigm’, arguing that all three are derived from a single underlying structure in which a prepositional phrase is predicate a…
Date:
2018-12-18
Luġa
(5,475 words)
1. The meaning of the term luġa In the Arabic grammatical tradition, the term
luġa (pl.
luġāt) means (i) ‘dialect’, (ii) ‘(dialectal) word’, (iii) ‘word in a dictionary’, and hence (iv) ‘lexicography’, and finally (v) ‘language’. The term
luġa was used in this latter meaning in the phrase waḍʿ al-luġa ‘the conventional nature of language’ in speculations about the relationship between names and designation (see Versteegh 1987:168; Goldziher 1994:38–44; for a more detailed study, see Weiss 1974). The original meaning of the word may …
Date:
2018-04-01
Luġa wusṭā
(4,590 words)
Definition “The communicative tensions which arise in the diglossia situation may be resolved by the use of relatively uncodified, unstable, intermediate forms of the language (Arabic:
al-luġa al-wusṭā) and repeated borrowing of vocabulary items from H to L” (Ferguson 1959:332). This intensional definition of
luġa wusṭā, cited from Charles Ferguson’s seminal article “Diglossia” (1959), constitutes the point of departure for the treatment of this lemma. The extension of the term, however, covers a wide range of styles and linguistic practices, as will be demonstrated below. In f…
Date:
2018-04-01