TY - BOOK AU - Behnstedt,Peter AU - Geva-Kleinberger,Aharon TI - Atlas of the Arabic dialects of Galilee (Israel): with some data for adjacent areas T2 - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East SN - 9789004411395 AV - G2237.G3E313 B4 2019 U1 - 492.7/70956945022 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Leiden Boston PB - BRILL KW - Arabic language KW - Dialects KW - Israel KW - Galilee KW - Maps N1 - "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"--Provided by publisher; Includes bibliographical references and index UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004411395 ER -