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Arabic - research
The subject area of Arabic has a long tradition at the University 91̽»¨. A professorship in Semitic languages was established as early as 1898, which in 1970 was converted into a professorship in Arabic. Historically, Arabic dialectology has been a dominant research area in the subject area. Today, research is conducted in several areas within Arabic studies in a broad sense, both in linguistics and in literature and cultural studies.
Linguistic research is conducted within:
- corpus linguistics
- language ideology
- language policy
- writing system research
- language history
- didactics
Literary and cultural research is conducted within:
- literary history
- cultural history
- translation
- manuscript studies
- early Arab history
For more details, see the researchers’ individual pages via the links below.