Kees Versteegh

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ID553596
NOMBREKees Versteegh
NOMBRESKees
APELLIDOVersteegh
FIRMAVERSTEEGH K
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Nijmegen
ORCID0009-0003-1322-3967
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAS11
TOTAL COMO AUTOR41
TOTAL COMO EDITOR6
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1983
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • A tale of two languages

    Open AccessKees VersteeghARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2026

    From early on Latin grammarians were fascinated by the relationship between Latin and Greek. When they started to describe their own language, they borrowed extensively from Greek grammatical terminology, which they tended to translate into Latin. In the grammatical literature references to the structure of Greek are frequent, usually serving didactic purposes. In this paper, I deal with a treatise written by the fifth-century homme de lettres Ma…

  • Hodgson’s Error or the Proliferation of Terminology

    Open AccessKees VersteeghARTICLEReligions2026Referencias: 18

    In his Venture of Islam, posthumously published in 1975, Marshall Hodgson presented a grandiose scheme of his view of the history of the Islamic world, in which he opposed the Eurocentric view of history in most contemporary studies of Islam. To support his novel approach he introduced a number of neologisms as technical terms, of which ‘Islamicate’ and ‘Persianate’ became widely known. In the present essay I investigate critically the provenance…

  • Where Have All the Endings Gone

    Kees VersteeghARTICLEThe Arabist Budapest Studies in…2024

    Compared to Classical Arabic the contemporary Arabic dialects are marked by the absence of a number of morphological features, including nominal declension and verbal moods. Any explanation of this difference has to deal with two issues: the linguistic input during the Islamic conquests, and the nature of the process of language acquisition in the conquered territories. In this paper both issues are discussed within the framework of a model for l…

  • “A River Runs Through It”

    Open AccessKees VersteeghARTICLERoczniki Humanistyczne2023

    The dialects spoken in the Dutch region Land van Maas en Waal, between the two rivers Meuse and Waal, are usually classified as a mixed dialect group exhibiting characteristics of the dialects of both Brabant and Gelderland. The perceptual map of the dialects paints a different picture as it shows a division between the speakers in the southern part of the region, who regard their dialect as more related to Brabant dialects, while speakers in the…

  • Why ‘Emphatics’

    Kees VersteeghARTICLEThe Arabist Budapest Studies in…2022

    In the introduction to the second edition of his Arabische Grammatik (1781) Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791) explains that, although he himself has never traveled to the East, he has been fortunate in meeting informants for his grammatical description of Arabic

  • Marking statements of fact in early pidgins

    Open AccessKees VersteeghARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2022

    The particle fi is used in Classical Arabic as a local and temporal preposition, ‘in’. In the contemporary Arabic dialects, it has the same meaning, but in addition it is used in some dialects as an existential, ‘there is/are’. In a number of Arabic work-related pidgins, such as Gulf Pidgin Arabic and Pidgin Madame, fi has acquired new functions. It does not only denote nominal predication, location, and possession, but is also used in combinatio…

  • The ghost of Vulgar Latin

    Open AccessKees VersteeghARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2021Referencias: 32

    The concept of a colloquial variety of Latin as an intermediate variety between Latin and the Romance languages has a long standing. Sometimes calledVulgarorPopular Latin, this variety is often conceptualized as a discrete linguistic variety, which is held responsible for the changes in the provincial realization of Latin. Since a great deal of evidence for this variety is collected from written texts, studies on the emergence of the Romance lang…

  • Can a Language be Islamic

    Kees VersteeghARTICLEEurasian Studies2020

    In a number of publications Alessandro Bausani employed the label ‘Islamic/Muslim language’ to characterize languages that were profoundly influenced by Arabic and/or Persian. In this paper I investigate the analytical usefulness of such a label from a linguistic perspective. In particular, I deal with loanwords from Arabic and the use of Arabic script for other languages and compare the interaction between religion and language in the Islamic wo…

  • Extended grammar

    Open AccessKees VersteeghARTICLEHistoire Épistémologie Langage2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Throughout history, a number of languages have achieved the status of learned language, i.e., a language included in the curriculum of an educational system without yielding any communicational benefits. In large parts of the Islamic world, Arabic was (and still is) such a learned language. Acquisition of the learned language took place through the memorization of texts, with instruction and/or translation in vernacular languages. The vernacular …

  • Islamic learning in Arabic-Afrikaans between Malay model and Ottoman reform

    Open AccessKees VersteeghARTICLEWacana Journal of the Humanities…2015Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

    Through the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century the Muslim community of Cape Town produced a large number of texts in various fields of Islamic learning, written in Afrikaans, a creolized variety of the language the Dutch traders had brought to South Africa. The Cape Muslim community had its origin in South Asia and Southeast Asia; most of its founding members had been transported by force by the Dutch coloni…

  • The Arabic Script in Africa

    Meikal Mumin, Kees VersteeghBOOKArabic Script in Africa2014

    The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions, which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla of Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North, West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami h…

  • Arabic Script in Africa

    Kees Versteegh, Meikal MuminBOOKArabic Script in Africa2014

  • The Arabic Language

    Kees VersteeghBOOKArabic Language2014

    The third edition, fully revised and updated, of this indispensable introduction to Arabic linguistics New for this edition: Presents new perspectives on the history of Arabic from the period before Islam in two completely revised chapters reporting on the ground-breaking discoveries in this field Covers recent developments in language use in the media after the Arab Spring Examines the influence of social media on language use and language attit…

  • Speaking of the past

    Kees VersteeghARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2014

    In rudimentary communication with foreigners, the most basic need is to express wishes and to give orders. Accordingly, verbal forms in foreigner-directed speech and pidgins often derive etymologically from imperatives or infinitives in the lexifier language. In more developed communication the need arises to refer to past events. In this paper, the development of past time reference from foreigner-directed speech to pidgin is investigated on the…

  • The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam

    Carmen Becker, Herbert Berg et al.BOOKTransmission and Dynamics of the…2011

    For many Muslims, the textual sources of Islam provide the guiding principles on which they base their beliefs. These texts have also been studied by Western scholars of Islam for centuries. Most of their work has focussed on the historicity of the texts, often at the expense of the study of Muslims' highly diverse interpretation and application of these sources in everyday life. This volume provides new insights into the transmission of these so…

  • Langues, religion et modernité dans l'espace musulman

    Kees VersteeghARTICLEArabica2009

  • Maarten Mous. 2003. The Making of a mixed Language

    Kees VersteeghARTICLEStudies in Language2007

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  • History of the Language Sciences

    Sylvain Auroux, E F K Koerner et al.BOOKHistory of the language sciences2006

  • Studies in the Linguistic Structure of Classical Arabic

    Andre Roman, Naphtali Kinberg et al.ARTICLEStudia Islamica2002

    In 1997 Naphtali Kinberg died, one of the best specialists in Classical Arabic and the Arabic grammatical tradition. His main work, the index on Farra''s Ma'ani l-Qur'an, which appeared in the Brill series Handbook of Oriental Studies (1996) will remain one of the most important reference tools for future research in this field. In this volume the editors have collected a number of articles in which Kinberg demonstrates his ability to combine mod…

  • Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften

    Sylvain Auroux, E F K Koerner et al.BOOKHistory of the Language Sciences…2001

    Volume 2 treats, in great detail and, at times quite innovatively, the individual stages of development of the study of language as an autonomous discipline, from the growing awareness in 17th and 18th century Europe of genetic relationships among a host of languages to the establishment of comparative-historical Indo-European linguistics in the 19th century, from the generation of the Schlegels, Bopp, Rask, and Grimm to the Neogrammarians and th…

  • History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte Der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire Des Sciences Du Langage (Handbücher Zur Sprach- Und … of Linguistics and Communication Science)

    E F K Koerner, Kees Versteegh et al.BOOKHistory of the Language Sciences…2001

  • Typology by the end of the 18th century

    Sylvain Auroux, E F K Koerner et al.CHAPTERHistory of the Language Sciences…2001

  • Linguistic Contacts Between Arabic and Other Languages

    Kees VersteeghARTICLEArabica2001

    L'A. examine differents cas d'emprunts lexicaux de la langue arabe quand la communaute arabophone est en contact avec d'autres langues a travers le monde, comme c'est le cas en Afrique, en Iran, en Turquie et en Asie du sud-est. Il propose une typologie de ces emprunts en fonction du niveau d'integration de l'emprunt et du type de mot emprunte. Il tente d'eclairer l'influence que ces emprunts peuvent avoir sur la culture arabe

  • Arabic in Madagascar

    Open AccessKees VersteeghARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2001Referencias: 4

    This paper deals with a secret language (kalamo) spoken by the Anakara clan of the Antaimoro tribe in the south-east of Madagascar. According to their own tradition, they migrated to the island between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries, from the Arabian peninsula. Their sacred writings (sorabe) are written in Arabic script in a mixture of Malagasy and Arabic. The secret language kalamo contains a large number of Arabic loanwords, as well as…

  • History of the language sciences

    E F K Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe et al.BOOKHistory of the language sciences2000