Beschreibung
This volume contains over forty articles related to various fields of
modern Arabic dialectology. All the articles in this book are revised and
enhanced versions of papers read on the 7 th Conference of the Association
Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA), held in Vienna in autumn
2006. The articles cover a wide range of subjects such as Bedouin
dialects, code-switching, differences between men’s and women’s speech, or
the question of prestige forms. The book also illustrates that the study
of Arabic dialects offers a great deal to other disciplines such as
ethnography, sociolinguistics, general linguistics, or Semitic studies.
