Foundations of Arab Linguistics

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  • Solomon I. Sara (1930‒2016)

    Solomon I. Sara (1930‒2016)

    Born in 1930 in Mangesh, a small Chaldean village in Iraq, late Prof. Solomon I. Sara (Šlīmōn Īšō Ṣārā) traversed numerous physical, cultural, and religious boundaries on his path to becoming a Jesuit priest in the US. Renowned as a specialist in classical Arabic phonetics and phonology, his notable contribution includes his 2007 book on…

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  • FAL 1 (Cambridge, 2010)

    FAL 1 (Cambridge, 2010)

    The proceedings of this first conference were published in this volume: The foundations of Arabic linguistics: Sībawayhi and early Arabic grammatical theory (edited by Amal E. Marogy), Leiden: Brill, 2012 (“Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics”; 65). This volume includes: See more details here…

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