Behnstedt Peter, Woidich Manfred. Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte. Band 3. Verben, Adjektive, Zeit und Zahlen (Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects. Volume 3. Verbs, Adjectives, Time and Numbers)

Brill, 2014. — 879 p.The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Morocco to Oman. The multilingual word atlas consists of three volumes in total with some 500 onomasiological maps in full colour. This third and final volume focuses on verbs, adjectives and function words. Each map presents a topic or notion and its equivalents in Arabic as collected from the dialectological literature (dictionaries, grammars, text collections, ethnographic reports, etc.), from the editors own field work, from questionnaires filled out by native speakers or by experts for a certain dialect region, and also from the internet. Polyglot legends in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian accompany the maps to facilitate further access. Each map is followed by a commentary in German, providing more details about the sources and the individual forms, and discussing semantic and etymological issues. All quotations are in their original language. The atlas is indispensable for anyone interested in the modern spoken Arabic language, as well as for dialectologists and for semanticists.