Deploying a bottom up instead of the conventional top down approach, and drawing
extensively on both literary and dialectal Arabic lexical sources, the present glossary�…

This pilot study probing the arcane prehistory of Arabic advances a hypothesis positing a
cluster of intriguing, to date unacknowledged, continuities in the realms of lexicon and�…

The writing of Arabic's linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of
collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The�…

This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the
Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. While most traditional�…

This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken
dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. It�…

This essay1 argues that modern spoken Arabic dialects sometimes retain very archaic
Semitic features. In fact, they may even preserve Proto-Semitic forms that have been lost in�…

A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of
historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the traditional conceptualization of an old�…

As scholars of Semitic languages we are fortunate to have such a wealth of material from
various historical periods and various geographical areas. Indeed, typically doing historical�…

Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins constitute the main evidence for
the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic language emerging from the complex fabric of Graeco�…

From the most distant past to the modern day, some things never change including words.
The modern Egyptian Arabic dialect is one of the most distinctive in the Arabic-speaking�…