Jonathan Owens
Auteur de A Linguistic History of Arabic
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Jonathan Owens is Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Starting his linguistics career with a SOAS PhD on Creole Arabic Nubi of East Africa, he has taught and conducted research at universities in Libya (Garyounis), Nigeria (Maiduguri), Jordan (Yarmouk), and the afficher plus USA (University of Maryland). His books include A Grammar of Libyan Arabic (1984), A Short Reference Grammar of Nigerian Arabic (1993), and The Foundations of Grammar: an Introduction to Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory (1988). afficher moins
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Approaches to Arabic linguistics : presented to Kees Versteegh on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (2007) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Studies in the history of Arabic grammar II proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar,… (1990) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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Owens makes special use of Sibawaih’s records of synchronic variation to show that features that varied in Old Arabic (such as “imala,” a phonological rule) continued into present-day dialects.
In ch. 5, Owens uses quantitative methods to show a remarkable affinity between Arabic in the western Sudanic area (= Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and western Sudan) and Uzbekistan. He shows that historically this affinity must be related to migration patterns out of the Arabian Peninsula before Arabic grammar was codified. Some of the features shared between this distant dialects are not shared by Classical Arabic, which is important evidence of poorly documented variation in Old Arabic.
In ch. 8, Owens gives his own reconstructions of Old Arabic object pronouns suffixes. Significantly, there is no trace of a noun case system in these suffixes, and again, there are also discrepancies between the reconstructed paradigm and those typically given as “Classical Arabic.”… (plus d'informations)