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Phillip W. Stokes

@phillipwstokes.bsky.social

Assoc. Professor of Arabic @ UTK. Harrington Faculty Fellow @ UT Austin (AY 23-24). Father of 2.

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Gareth Roberts@garicgymro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here's an example of a linguistic fact that I think should be straightforward and obvious when pointed out, but which a lot of people seem surprisingly resistant to: Colloquial Latin never died. In fact it's spoken extremely widely across the world. 🧵

Open Book Publishers@openbookpublish.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's true! 👀 NEW BOOK | A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic: Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam by @phillipwstokes.bsky.social Read freely online or buy a copy: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #OAbooks #SemiticSeries #OpenAccess

An image of the book in hardback on a colourful background next to text that says: 'A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic by Phillip W. Stokes This volume offers the most comprehensive linguistic analysis to date of Vatican Arabic MS 13, a late 9th/early 10th-century Arabic Gospel manuscript. Combining meticulous quantitative study with wide-ranging comparative evidence, this book provides an in-depth examination of the manuscript's orthography, phonology, morphology, morpho-syntax, and syntax. Crucially, the study does not treat MS 13 in isolation. Its features are systematically compared with those of other Christian Arabic manuscripts, Quranic traditions, medieval Arabic registers, early poetry, and modern dialects, challenging long-standing assumptions about 'Middle Arabic' and 'Classical Arabic'. By demonstrating that many features of MS 13 align with broader scribal and linguistic practices of the period, the book makes a compelling case that scribes drew creatively and pragmatically from a diverse repertoire of features and linguistic traditions, revealing a far more dynamic and multifaceted approach to written composition than previously recognised. An outstanding and field-shaping contribution, this volume provides an essential model for future work on Christian Arabic, medieval Arabic varieties, and the history of Arabic.'
Phillip W. Stokes@phillipwstokes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My new book is officially out! It's published Open Access with Cambridge's Semitic Languages and Cultures series, and can be freely downloaded here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Phillip W. Stokes@phillipwstokes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My new book is officially out! It's published Open Access with Cambridge's Semitic Languages and Cultures series, and can be freely downloaded here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam

This volume offers the most comprehensive linguistic analysis to date of Vatican Arabic MS 13, a late 9th/early 10th-century Arabic Gospel manuscript. Combining meticulous quantitative study with wide...

openbookpublishers.com

Marijn van Putten@phdnix.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So my translations of al-Dani's Taysir is out! So what is this text about? It is a description of seven canonical reading traditions of the Quran authored by the Andalusi polymath ʾAbū ʿAmr ʿUṯmān b. Saʿīd al-Dānī (371/981–444/1053).

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Phillip W. Stokes@phillipwstokes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Excited to finally have the official cover of my forthcoming book, which will be in Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Series (Open Book Publishers). For a blurb, see link below. No official date for publication yet, but hopefully within a month or so!

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Phillip W. Stokes@phillipwstokes.bsky.social · last yr.

New publication: www.academia.edu/127029112/20... My attempt to investigate this feature in a corpus of early 'Middle' Arabic texts and say something more interesting than is typical. I interact with lots of good scholarship on this feature in other corpora, as well, which is worth reading

2024 – Gender and Number Agreement in Early Christian Arabic Manuscripts: A Historically 'Middle' Feature

The topic of gender and number agreement in Arabic has garnered significant interest in recent years, culminating in the recent monograph by Bettega and D'Anna (2023). The picture that has emerged...

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Dominique Bobeck@dombobeck.bsky.social · 2y ago

The interrogative 'why' in #Semitic languages: - Classical Arabic: li-māðā - Palestinian Arabic: (ʕa-)lē(š) - Modern Hebrew: la-ma - Syriac: l-mānā - Turoyo: l-mən - Old Ethiopic: bä-ʼəntä mənt - Amharic: lä-mən - Mehri: hɛːɬən ~ wə-koːh - Akkadian: ana mīni(m) ~ ammīni(m) (1/2)