Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee (Israel)

With Some Data for Adjacent Areas

• Author(s): Peter Behnstedt, Aharon Geva Kleinberger,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 480
• ISBN_10: 9004411399
  ISBN_13: 9789004411395
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Reference / Encyclopedias , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Reference / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps , Travel / Maps & Road Atlases , Reference / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics ,

Description:... This atlas is based on large-scale fieldwork conducted in Galilee in the mid-nineties of last century. Galilee is the area with the highest percentage of arabophones in Israel and displays a rather complex dialectal situation. The reshuffling of large parts of the population after 1948 led to a considerable degree of dialectal diversity in many places. Moreover, many points of investigation show, besides the notorious Bedouin-sedentary dichotomy, a significant sociolinguistic variation with respect to age, sex, and denomination.The atlas contains seventy-three phonetic and phonologial maps, in addition to eighty morphological and thirty-eight lexical maps.Ten maps deal with the classification of the dialects.The atlas is of interest to semitists, dialectologists and variationists.