TY - BOOK AU - Wilmsen,David William TI - Arabic indefinites, interrogatives, and negators: a linguistic history of Western dialects T2 - Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics SN - 9780198718123 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Arabic language KW - Dialects KW - Grammar KW - Interrogative KW - Negatives KW - Arabisch KW - gnd KW - Mundart N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This volume demonstrates the significance of the Arabic dialects in understanding the history of Arabic and the Semitic languages, and claims that modern Arabic dialects could not have developed from classical Arabic ER -