Translating religion linguistic analysis of Judeo-Arabic sacred texts from Egypt - Hary, Benjamin H. (Brill, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-345) and index
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Technical Notes -- Introduction -- Part I -- Judeo-Arabic: The Language of Arabic-Speaking Jews -- Chapter One 8211; The Jewish Linguistic Spectrum -- The Sociolinguistics of Jewish Varieties -- Issues of Terminology -- The Emergence and Development of Jewish Varieties -- Crossing Religious Boundaries -- The Characteristics of Jewish Varieties -- A List of Jewish Varieties -- Chapter Two 8211; Judeo-Arabic within the Jewish Linguistic Spectrum -- An Overview of Judeo-Arabic -- The History of Judeo-Arabic -- The Structure of Judeo-Arabic -- The Judeo-Arabic Continuum -- The Diachronic Development of Judeo-Arabic Continuglossia -- The Current State of Judeo-Arabic -- Chapter Three 8211; The Translation of Sacred Texts into Judeo-Arabic (the 353;arh) -- Translation and Issues of Sacredness -- The Translator's Dilemma -- The Development of the 353;arh --
- The Cairo Collection -- Previous Studies on the 353;arh -- The Framework for the Linguistic Analysis of the 353;arh -- Head-to-Toe Scanning -- The Translation Continuum -- The Work of the 353;arhan -- Chapter Four 8211; Spoken Egyptian Judeo-Arabic: The Evidence from the 353;arh Texts -- Spoken Egyptian Judeo-Arabic 8212; An Introduction -- Methodology -- 1. Phonetics and Phonology -- 2. Morphology -- 3. Syntax -- 4. Lexicon -- 5. Summary of Colloquial Features of Spoken Egyptian Judeo-Arabic -- Chapter Five 8211; Additional Linguistic Issues of the 353;arh Tradition -- Issue One: Pseudocorrections -- Issue Two: The Theoretical Background of the Use of Hebrew and Aramaic Components in Judeo-Arabic -- Issue Three: The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon in the 353;ur363;h -- Summary -- Part II -- A Linguistic Model of the Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Sared Texts -- Chapter Six 8211; Applying the Model -- Introductory Notes -- Methodological Notes --
- Dynamic Literal/Interpretive Linguistic Tension: Complex Cases -- Calque Translations -- The Organization of the Examples -- Chapter Seven 8211; The Phrase and the Word Levels -- Word-for-Word Translation -- Word Order: Syntactic Adaptation -- Word Order: Adverbs -- Word Order: Numerals -- Lexicon: Semantic Considerations -- Lexicon: Sound/Appearance Considerations -- Chapter Eight 8211; The Morphosyntactic Level -- Negation: Nominal -- Negation: Verbal -- Prepositions -- Coordinating Particles and Conjunctions -- Conditional Particles -- Independent Personal Pronouns -- Pronominal Suffixes -- Relative Pronouns -- Demonstrative Pronouns -- Interrogative Pronouns and Particles -- Verb Conjugation: Infinitives -- Verb Conjugation: Finite Verbs -- Cases: Accusative -- Cases: Directional -- Definiteness -- Agreement: Number -- Agreement: Gender -- Tense and Aspect -- Mood -- Voice: Passive -- Numerals with Counted Nouns -- Chapter Nine 8211; The Segment Level -- Assimilation --
- Emphatization and Deemphatization -- Elision -- Orthographic Marking of the Glides -- Diacritic Marks -- Hebrew-Influenced Orthography -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Index