BRIDGING CULTURES, BUILDING LEGACIES THROUGH ARABICA FESTSCHRIFT FOR GEORGE GRIGORE

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This Festschrift honors Professor George Grigore’s contributions to Arabic studies through 39 articles covering a diverse range of topics. The volume explores Arabic dialectology, with studies on dialects from Algeria, Central Asia, Egypt, Iran, Italy, Mauritania, Morocco, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, and beyond. It also examines phonetics and phonology, including depharyngealization, debuccalization, emphatic consonants, sibilants, and th-fronting.
Morphosyntactic studies address conditionals, inflection, negation, quadriconsonantal verbs, and verbal conjugation, while sections on language contact analyze Arabic pidgins and creoles.
Translation studies range from vernacular-to-Standard Arabic adaptations to medieval text analysis and Quranic translation.
The collection further engages with historical linguistics, including Peripheral, Classical, and Medieval Arabic. Literary and cultural studies explore ethnolinguistics, colloquial poetry, folklore, and contemporary literature. Contributions in applied linguistics focus on pedagogy, terminology, and media language, alongside examinations of Arabic script aesthetics. Ethnographic research documents rituals, folklore, and proverbs. United by Grigore’s interdisciplinary approach, the volume bridges dialectology, intercultural dialogue, and the evolving sociolinguistic realities of the Arabic language.