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بقلم (المؤلف) Behnstedt Peter ط› بقلم (المؤلف) Woidich Manfred
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Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte
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The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Uzbekistan to Mauretania and Nigeria, from Malta to Sudan, and including the Ki-Nubi Creole as spoken in Uganda and Kenya. The multilingual word atlas consists of four volumes in total with some 500 onomasiological maps in full colour. Each map presents a topic or notion and its equivalents in Arabic as collected from the dialectological literature (dictionaries, grammars, text collections, ethnographic reports, etc.), from the editors’ own field work, from questionnaires filled out by native speakers or by experts for a certain dialect region, and also from the internet. Polyglot legends in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian accompany the maps to facilitate further access. Each map is followed by a commentary in German, providing more details about the sources and the individual forms, and discussing semantic and etymological issues. All quotations are in their original language. The maps mainly show lexical types, detailed and concrete forms are given in the commentaries. An introduction is provided in Volume 1 in both German and English. Indices of all lexemes in the atlas will be available for each volume. The first volume Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora / Volume 1: Mankind, Nature, Fauna and Flora contains subjects such as ‘family members’, ‘professions’, ‘human qualities’. The second volume, Band II: Materielle Kultur, deals with material culture (‘house’, ‘utensils’, ‘food’, ‘clothing’, ‘vehicles’, etc.). The third volume Band III: Verben, Adjektive, Zeit und Zahlen focuses on verbs, and adjectives. The forth volume Band IV: Funktionswörter und Phraseologisches contains functionwords and some phraseological items. The atlas is indispensable for everyone interested in the modern spoken Arabic language, as well as for dialectologists and for semanticists.
Table of contents:
VorwortEinleitungEnglish IntroductionAbkürzungen/abbreviationsAlphabetisches KartenverzeichnisAlphabetical List of MapsKarten und KommentareA. UntersuchungspunkteB. Mensch und Gesellschaft1. Mensch2. Personen3. Berufe4. Körperteile5. Menschliche EigenschaftenC. Fauna, Natur, Flora6. Haus- und Nutztiere7. Frei lebende Tiere8. Natur9. Himmelsrichtungen10. Pflanzen11. DattelpalmeBibliographieAddenda et corrigendaIndex der dialektarabischen WörterIndex der klassisch-arabischen WörterIndex der Wörter anderer Sprachen
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“The Wortatlas differs substantially from all earlier atlases of Arabic dialects. It does not supersede the previous ones, but it opens up a new, truly fascinating window to the linguistic diversity of the Arabic-speaking world. […] All in all, The Wortatlas is not only an outstanding major work which repays close study, it is only one of the most important milestones in the study of Arabic dialects. It needs to be kept in mind that until recently the material was still very disparate and full of lacunae, and it would have seemed am impracticable task to produce an atlas of this kind. However, through devoted work, skill and cooperation it has come true. The result of this Herculean task is praisewothy indeed.” – Heikki Palva, in: Journal of Arabic Linguistics, 58 (2013)
“Insgesamt beeindruckt dieses Werk durch seine enorme, aber nie schwerfällig daherkommende Gelehrsamkeit ebenso wie durch den immensen Fleiß, der für die Erstellung der Karten, aber auch der Kommentare aufgewendet wurde. Hier setzen sich die Autoren, hier setzt sich aber auch die arabische Dialektologie deutscher Sprache ein grandioses Denkmal.” – Otto Jastrow,
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