Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics

1: Introduction
Part I. Old Arabic
2: Arabic and Semitic
3: Arabs and Arabic
4: Three types of pre- and early Islamic sources: The pre-Sibawaihian setting
Part II. Reconstruction
5: Punctuation and language history: I/I + D, inheritance/innovation and diffusion
6: Four issues in Arabic historical linguistics
Part III. Contact
7: Arabic in contact: Aramaic
8: Morphosyntax as an adaptive mechanism I: Idioms
9: Morphosyntax as an adaptive mechanism II: The expansive demonstrative
Part IV. Stability
10: Language stability I: Three case sketches
11: Language stability II: Watching paint dry, or, metrics for measuring language stability
Part V. Taxonomy
12: Towards a typology for historical linguistics
13: Summing up
14: Why Arabic is special, and special for historical linguistics

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• Linguística histórica e comparativa
• Sociolinguística
• Gramática, sintaxe e morfologia
• História do Oriente Médio