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Al-Jallad. A Manual of the Historical Grammar of Arabic

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Version 2020-1 Updates: 1) chronological divisions - Pre-Historic Old Arabic 2) broken plurals and agreement 3) mythologies of Arabic 4) sound changes, Old Higazi and Tamimi 5) new texts 6) some typos removed, new ones surely generated. I first compiled this manual in 2014 to teach the Historical Grammar of Arabic at the Leiden Linguistics Summer School. I have since continued to update it with new material and insights, and have used various iterations to teach my classes at Leiden University and again at the Leiden Linguistics Summer School, the second time with Dr. Marijn van Putten. The book as it stands now is incomplete; future iterations will cover subjects not treated here, such as the plurals, the morphology of the infinitives and participles, and syntax. The bibliography is not fully formatted and the appendix of texts contains mostly Old Arabic inscriptions but will soon be expanded to include texts from all periods. This text has not been copy edited so please forgive any typos and other infelicities. It is my intention to keep this book open access and free for all to use for research purposes and instruction. Please feel free to cite this text but be sure to include the version number. I will archive the versions at H-Commons so that previous versions are available even though the main text will continue to be updated. Visit my academida.edu (https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/AhmadAlJallad) page to comment a permanent “session”. Users are encouraged to send me suggestions and improvements to better the overall text; I will acknowledge these contributions in the notes. I would like to thank Marijn van Putten for his corrections on this draft while using this manual in his courses and privately.

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Scientific director, Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia: ociana.osu.edu Ahmad Al-Jallad specializes in the history, language, and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia, the construction of the Jāhiliyyah in later sources, Arabian epigraphy, the history of Arabic, and Semitic philology.

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