Jonathan Owens Livres

Inhalt: Jonathan Owens: Introduction, Ulrich Braukämper: Notes on the Origin of Baggara Arab Culture with Special Reference to the Shuwa, Jean-Claude Zeltner: De la Tripolitaine au Tchad - les Awlad Sulayman, Premières migrations arabes du Fezzan au Kanem - une brève communication, Jonathan Owens: Nigerian Arabic in Comparative Perspective, Mauro Tosco / Jonathan Owens: Turku - A Descriptive and Comparative Study, Alan S. Kaye / Mauro Tosco: Early East African Pidgin Arabic „The authors of the six papers in this volume discuss the origin of Arabs and Arabic in the Lake Chad region, taking into account the historical relations between this region and the rest of the Sudanese belt, including upper Egypt, Libya, and the Sudan. There are few studies on this topic, despite the appearance of a number of publications over the last fifteen years. The contributors to the present volume, specialists in their fields, provide an updated bibliography. Moreover, the volume encompasses both historical and linguistic analyses. For all these reasons the volume is stimulating, raises many issues, and is a landmark in the field of sub- Saharan Arabic history and linguistics.“

Challenging traditional narratives, this book offers a nuanced exploration of the evolution of Arabic from its classical roots to modern dialects. It delves into the intricate history of the early Arabic language, providing a linguistically-informed framework for understanding its development over time. This comprehensive approach enriches the reader's appreciation of Arabic's diverse linguistic landscape.

Now you know about the people who played big roles in my life. Here's a brief description of my book. This book contains a collection of poems I wrote throughout my life. I did not put them in chronological order so the reader can figure out the puzzle of my life. Let me mind you I still didn't figure that puzzle out, and that's what this book is about. Finding yourself isn't the easiest so remember it's the choices we make that define our lives. These are the choices I made the experiences I learned from. It takes a smart man to learn from his own mistakes but a wise man can learn from others. Everyone has an opinion on what life means to them. These are my opinions because I believe if you can overcome the fear of death you can truly live life.

In this book you will experience real emotions that I dealt with in my life. I felt different like I didn't belong, poetry was the only way I could express myself. Some of the poems may seem like rap or hip-hop, which was my way of fitting in. I also fell victim to the world of addiction for me that is how I dealt with my emotions. As a member of a 12 step fellowship I realized that I didn't want to feel. Drugs and Alcohol made me feel alive, but that feeling would only last so long. After a while I felt misery, pain, and unhappiness. Until one day God granted me the gift of desperation. From that day on I've been sober, but like a good addict those feelings come back. That's why I consider myself "Still in The Grips"

The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Nigerian Arabic is spoken by some 400,000 Arabs in NE Nigeria, their presence in Nigeria going back at least 200 years, though probably far longer. Their dialect, however, is relatively unknown within Arabic dialectology. As a general reference grammar this book will thus be of interest to Arabicists, Africanists as well as to scholars of culture history, particularly in the light it sheds on the linguistic status of an Arabic dialect spoken by minority Arabic group. While formalized linguistic statements generally are avoided in this grammar, there is a detailed coverage of phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as indications about where dialectal and sociolectal variation is found. Beside the standard presentation of phonological tables, morphological paradigms and syntactic classes, one of the data bases the grammar is constructed from is some 20 hours of transcribed texts, from which examples are freely drawn. A rigorous structural summary is thus complemented by exemplification from natural speech.