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Jonathan Owens

جوناثان أوينز

Notable figure b. 1951 · Source: Universität Bayreuth, ERef publication list: Owens, Jonathan · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Owens, Jonathan (1951-....), professor of Arabic language and literature, University of Bayreuth

From the United States; worked in Germany

Field: Grammar and dialects

Affiliation

Linguist; Early Arabic Grammatical Theory (1990)

Biography

Professor of Arabic linguistics at the University of Bayreuth in Germany until he retired in 2016. He studied the Arabic grammatical tradition in The Foundations of Grammar (Amsterdam, 1988) and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory (Amsterdam, 1990), described Nigerian Arabic in A Short Reference Grammar of Nigerian Arabic (Wiesbaden, 1993), and wrote A Linguistic History of Arabic (Oxford, 2006).