Courses in the Department of Linguistics

This department studies Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew linguistics.

First Year:

a) General Linguistics:

Its definition, properties, and classification; Language as a system (phonetic, morphological, syntactic, semantic); Linguistic levels; Spoken and written language.

The place of linguistics among the humanities; Philology; Branches of linguistics; Research methodologies in linguistics; Its relationship to other sciences.

b) Arabic Linguistics:

Its definition and properties; The Holy Quran and the Arabic language; Arabic dialects; Writing and its stages of development; Arabic sciences.

Second Year:

a) Linguistics:

First: Arabic phonetics; Linguistic library.

Second: Arabic dictionaries (their origins, types, and schools).

(b) Semitic and Oriental Studies:

This is divided into Persian and Hebrew, and the student chooses one language to study:

  1. Hebrew: Basic rules for reading and writing Hebrew; simplified prose texts for grammar practice; an introduction to the history of Semitic languages ​​and the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic.
  2. Persian: Basic rules of Persian; simplified prose texts for translation and grammar practice.

Third Year:

First: Linguistics:

  1. Sociolinguistics: The place of sociolinguistics in linguistic studies; factors of unification and differentiation in language and dialect; linguistic diversity and its patterns; language and culture; language and religion; and language and politics.
  2. Semantics: Its concept and its relationship to other languages; its fields and applications among Arabs; its problems; its causes; its patterns; and its relationship to other sciences.

Second: Persian and Hebrew Languages:

  1. Hebrew: Completion of grammar – Texts from the Torah and their comparison with Arabic.
  2. Persian: Historical literary periods – Prose and poetry texts – An overview of Persian literature.

Fourth Year:

a) Modern Linguistics:

Problems of contemporary Arabic – Modern linguistic schools.

b) Comparative or Contrastive Linguistics:

  1. Hebrew: Comparative linguistic phenomena – Hebrew texts and their comparison with Arabic – Andalusian Hebrew texts and their impact on the Jews of Andalusia.
  2. Persian: Comparative linguistic and literary phenomena – Persian literary periods – Mutual influence and interaction between the two languages ​​and literatures, Persian and Arabic.