This book is the very first comprehensive description of the Arabic variety spoken in the
South-Western Iranian province of Khuzestan. It contains a detailed description of its …

The primary aim of this paper is to explore the functions of the word/fard/in Iraqi and
Khuzestani Arabic. The study is based on the analysis of various text corpora and the …

The present paper aims at making an inventory of the different reflexes displayed by
Classical Arabic interdental fricatives in present-day Arabic dialects. It attempts to classify …

This paper presents a phonological analysis of a hitherto unexamined endangered Arabic
dialect, that of the Jews of Gabes in Southern Tunisia, combining a comparative examination …

The aspectual and temporal value of the verb is one of the most discussed problems in
Semitic linguistics. Nonetheless, in the field of North African Arabic dialectology this subject …

The thesis presents a linguistic study of the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Gabes
(Southern Tunisia). This variety belongs to the group of sedentary North-African dialects and …

This study introduces and analyzes proximal and distal singular demonstratives in fourteen
varieties of Musandam Arabic, a little-documented dialect group located on Musandam …

This paper presents a phonological analysis of a hitherto unexamined endangered Arabic
dialect, that of the Jews of Gabes in Southern Tunisia, combining a comparative examination …

Language documentation has been carried out in Iran since the late 1800s but in a sporadic
way, and even now, the scholarly picture of the country's linguistic landscape is fragmentary …

This preliminary study explores the hypothesis that Arabic dialects spoken on the Iranian
side of the Persian Gulf exhibit the beginnings of contact-induced shift in word order from VO …