Haeri (anthropology, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD) has written a fascinating study of the use, meaning, and importance of classical Arabic in Egypt, based partly on fieldwork carried out among fami
In the Arabic world, Classical Arabic is the language of both religion and the state, and as such is typically the language of formal written communication and publishing. But local Arabic dialects ar
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
