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| Abbreviations and Symbols | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction: A Language and Its Secrets | |
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| Proto-Arabic, Basic Terms | |
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| The Early Sources | |
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| The Role of the Modern Dialects in Interpreting Arabic Language History | |
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| Scope of Work | |
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| Language Change and Language Transmission | |
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| A Critical Look at Some Truisms in Arabic Historical Linguistics | |
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| Summary of Chapters | |
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| Old Arabic, Neo-Arabic and Comparative Linguistics | |
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| A Method vs. a Logical Matrix | |
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| Stages in Arabic | |
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| Arabic and the Dialects | |
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| Neo-Arabic and the Neo-German school | |
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| The Past is the Present: A Modern Logical Matrix | |
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| The Arabic Tradition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Case and Proto-Arabic | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Case in the Afroasiatic Phylum | |
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| Classical Arabic | |
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| The Modern Dialects | |
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| Case and Caseless Arabic | |
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| Al-Idgham al-Kabiyr and Case Endings | |
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| Sharh Tayyibat al-Nashr: A Fifteenth-Century Treatise on Koranic Variants | |
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| Linguistic Attributes of 'Major Assimilation' | |
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| Interpretive Summary | |
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| Pre-Diasporic Arabic in the Diaspora: A Statistical Approach to Arabic Language History | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Dialects, Procedure, Initial Results | |
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| Statistical Results and their Meaning | |
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| Interpretations | |
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| The Interpretation of Arabic Linguistic History | |
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| Statistics, Reconstruction, Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Three Caveats | |
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| Problems in Coding | |
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| Nigerian Arabic and Reconstruction of the Imperfect Verb | |
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| The Basic Imperfect Verb | |
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| Historical Significance | |
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| Epenthesis | |
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| The Old Arabic Evidence | |
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| The Reconstructions and the Classical Arabic Verbal Mode Endings | |
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| Imala | |
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| Imala in Old Arabic | |
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| Imala in the Modern Dialects | |
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| Reconstruction | |
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| Suffix Pronouns and Reconstruction | |
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| Pausal and Context Forms and Case Endings | |
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| Suffix Pronouns and Case Endings | |
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| Pronominal Suffixes, Case Endings and Epenthetic Vowels in Dialects | |
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| Syllable Structure | |
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| A Data Survey | |
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| Unproblematic Cases, Some Easy Generalizations | |
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| More Difficult Cases | |
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| Case Traces? | |
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| Harris Birkeland and Old Arabic Object Pronoun Reconstruction | |
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| Summary and Epilogue | |
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| Reconstruction and Continuity with Old Arabic | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| List and short summary of dialects included in study | |
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| List of features used in comparison, Chapter 5, with brief exemplification | |
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| Imala in Zamaxshari | |
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| Table of suffix pronouns used in reconstructions in Chapter 8 | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |