Jewish life in Arabic language and Jerusalem Arabic in communal perspective : : a lexico-semantic study / / by Moshe Piamenta.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 30
• VerfasserIn: Piamenta, M.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Köln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 2000.; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages).
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004348506
• ISSN: 0081-8461
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Moshe Piamenta.

This volume deals with Judaeo-Jerusalem Arabic affected by Jewish socio-religious life, its interrelatedness with non-Jewish Jerusalem Arabic, and its erosion by youths through replacement by Hebrew. The socio-religious life of the Jewish community is first introduced, followed by descriptions of socio-linguistic processes of both dialect varieties, of integrating and discharging foreign borrowings, of lexico-semantic concord and contrast between both dialect varieties, of varieties relating to relative status of interlocutors, and of deteriorating Judaeo-Jerusalem Arabic replaced by modern Hebrew. A dictionary-like Arabic and Hebrew index ends the book. The diachronic and synchronic analyses and description of intricate and interrelated lexico-semantic communal dialectal varieties of Arabic and Hebrew in present-day Jerusalem is a most challenging linguistic achievement hopefully won here.