How Long to Read Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics

How Long Does it Take to Read Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 39 minutes to read Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics by Jonathan Owens

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Description

This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. While most traditional accounts have been dominated by a linear understanding of the development of Arabic, this book instead advocates a multiple pathways approach to Arabic language history. Arabic has multifarious sources: its relations to other Semitic languages, an old epigraphic and papyrological tradition, a vibrant and linguistically original classical Arabic linguistic tradition, and a widely dispersed array of contemporary spoken varieties. These diverse sources present a challenge to and an opportunity for defining a holistic but not necessarily linear Arabic language history. The geographical breadth and chronological depth of Arabic make it a fertile ground for a critical appraisal and application of perspectives from a range of subdisciplines including sociolinguistics, typology, grammaticalization, and corpus linguistics. Jonathan Owens draws on these approaches to investigate more than 20 individual case studies that cover more than 1500 years of documented and reconstructed history: the results demonstrate that Arabic is a far more complex historical object than traditional accounts have assumed. This complexity is further explored in a comparison of the historical morphology of three languages that can be compared over roughly the same period (500 AD-2022 AD): Icelandic, English, and Arabic. Icelandic and English are diametrically opposed on a parameter of linearity. Icelandic is effectively alinear: the morphology of the earliest Icelandic writings is the morphology of today. English is linear, having undergone a drastic change in morphology from its Old English stage to the Middle English period. Arabic is shown to be alinear in many important respects, but multilinear in others, with different sorts of linguistic changes being spread across many individual historical speech communities.

How long is Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics?

Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics by Jonathan Owens is 513 pages long, and a total of 129,789 words.

This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 159% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 49 minutes to read Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics aloud.

What Reading Level is Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics?

Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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