- In Language 30 (1954). 564–570. Ferguson thinks the book lacks “an introduction setting forth the language situation in the Syrian area and a complete glossary of Arabic word used in the text”. As for the glossary, he is right, and we are setting up such a glossary: it will be published with the second- or third-year manuals we are planning. But an introduction treating the linguistic geography of the area would be not at all useful: our manual is an elementary one, for the use of first-year students; these students come to the School of Oriental Languages without knowing either Arabic, or Syria; the linguistic geography of Syrian Arabic would not be understood. Nevertheless such an introduction will have its place at the beginning of the second- or third- year manual. I shall, in another connection, revert to the morphological points touched upon by Ferguson.
- The respective places of h and of the hamza are doubtful.
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