Towards a sociohistorical reconstruction of pre-Islamic Arabic dialect diversity

This dissertation develops a new framework for reconstructing the diversity of a language at a given historical time period. It applies this framework to the problem of reconstructing the diversity of Arabic dialects immediately prior to the Islamic conquests, which spread speakers of these dialects...

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Main Author: Magidow, Alexander
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21378