Arabic and the case against linearity in historical linguistics

This volume explores nearly 2000 years of the history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. Jonathan Owens advocates a multiple pathways approach to the development of Arabic, which he shows to be alinear in many respec...

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Main Author: Owens, Jonathan,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations.
Series: Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 52.
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