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Article: A Syntax of San ani Arabic.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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This welcome addition to synchronic Arabic dialectology (in Otto Jastrow's Semitica Viva series) is a comprehensive syntactic description of San ani Arabic done along more-or-less traditional lines. I say traditional because there are references to the functional linguist, Michael A. K. Halliday, as well as to the author of one of the finest (conventional) grammars available for an Arabic dialect, Mark W. Cowell (Damascene). This tome is based on the author's fieldwork (between 1985-92) as well as on some published material on this dialect (by such well known previous investigators as Peter Behnstedt, Hamdi A. Qafisheh, Werner Diem, and Otto Jastrow). It probably also ...
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