TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mohamed El Sharkawi
TI  - History and Development of the Arabic Language: From Pre-Islamic Times to the Age of Conquests
SN  - 9781138821521
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Arabic language
KW  - History
KW  - Development
KW  - Study of Arabic
KW  - Pre-Islamic Arabic
KW  - Diaspora
KW  - Classical Arabic
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction -- The geography and demography of pre-Islamic Arabia -- Sources of the study of Arabic. Trust worthy data -- Grammarians and the dialects -- Pre-Islamic Arabic. The pre-Islamic linguistic situation -- Pre-Islamic dialects -- Signs of development in pre-Islamic Arabic -- The dual paradigm -- The case system -- Arabic after Islam and Diaspora. The influence of Islam and the conquests -- Arabicization -- The dialects -- Dialect division -- Classical Arabic. From pre-classical to classical -- The functional load of classical Arabic -- Conclusion
ER  -