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Haim Blanc’s Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the years 1957–1962, this book portaits the extensive regional continuum of modern spoken Arabic stretching across parts of Mesopotamia and N. Syria, evinced by the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speech communities in Baghdad.Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers.
Haim Blanc, Ph.D. (1953), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was Professor of Arabic linguistics at that university. He has published monographs and articles on Arabic dialectology, modern Hebrew, and the traditional Arab grammarians.
\texonly{\evenpage\begincentertobookpage\hbox{}\unmedskip\vskip0pt plus.5fill\image{}{}{Haim Blanc in his study}{\type{center}\hwidth{.8}\src{GS}{01-Haim}}\headless\endcentertobookpage}\texonly{\advance\toctwoind by \normalparindent}ForewordBiography of Haim BlancEditorial PreambleAlexander Borg\texonly{\sepline}ForewordMap: The Mesopotamian Dialect Area1 Introduction1.1 Aim and Scope1.2 Sources1.3 The Mesopotamian Dialect Area1.4 The Baghdad Situation2 Communal Dialects in the Arab World2.1 Social Dialects2.2 Communal Differentiation in Arabic3 Phonology3.1 Procedure and Notation3.2 Consonants3.3 Vowels3.4 Stress3.5 Consonant Clusters and Anaptyxis4 Morphology4.1 Procedure and Notation4.2 The Pronoun4.3 The Feminine Suffix4.4 Some Other Suffixes4.5 The Noun4.6 The Numerals4.7 The Participle4.8 The Verb4.9 Other Morpheme Classes5 Some Syntactic Features5.1 Introductory5.2 The Postpositional Copula5.3 Absence of Article5.4 Anticipatory Pronoun Suffix Plus L6 Some Lexical Features6.1 Introductory6.2 Basic Vocabulary6.3 Interrogatives and Demonstratives6.4 Elements of Non-Arabic Origin6.5 Selected Lexical Items7 Summary and Conclusion7.1 Summary of Findings7.2 Characterization of the DialectsAbbreviations Used in References and NotesReferences CitedNotesIndex