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Godfrey Rolles Driver

غودفري رولز درايفر

Notable figure 1892–1975 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 549; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 507 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Driver, Godfrey Rolles (1892-1975)

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Semitist; grammar of colloquial Syrian Arabic (1925)

Biography

A graduate of Oxford, he taught there, becoming Reader in Comparative Semitic Philology (1928) and then Professor of Semitic Philology (1938). He wrote A Grammar of the Colloquial Arabic of Syria and Palestine (1925), and articles on the features of Syrian Arabic (1920) and on problems of Semitic grammar (1937).