Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics

1: Introduction Part I. Old Arabic 2: Arabic and Semitic 3: Arabs and Arabic 4: Three types of pre- and early Islamic sources: The pre-Sibawaihian setting Part II. Reconstruction 5: Punctuation and language history: I/I + D, inheritance/innovation and diffusion 6: Four issues in Arabic historical linguistics Part III. Contact 7: Arabic in contact: Aramaic 8: Morphosyntax as an adaptive mechanism I: Idioms 9: Morphosyntax as an adaptive mechanism II: The expansive demonstrative Part IV. Stability 10: Language stability I: Three case sketches 11: Language stability II: Watching paint dry, or, metrics for measuring language stability Part V. Taxonomy 12: Towards a typology for historical linguistics 13: Summing up 14: Why Arabic is special, and special for historical linguistics

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• Gramática, sintaxe e morfologia
• Linguística histórica e comparativa
• Sociolinguística
• História do Oriente Médio