Additional Linguistic Issues Of The Šarḥ Tradition

This chapter examines the use of pseudocorrections in Judeo-Arabic in general and in the Egyptian surūḥ in particular. It demonstrates how both hypercorrections and hypocorrections, which are two different types of pseudocorrections, are used in the texts. The chapter discusses the implications of the standardization of pseudocorrections in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic for both the literary and the spoken varieties. A theoretical model is developed for the use of Hebrew and Aramaic components in Jewish religiolects in general and in Judeo-Arabic in particular. Using Uriel Weinreich's work on languages in contact, this model demonstrates how components are transferred to Judeo-Arabic from two different directions, supplying the reasons for each direction and giving examples for each direction from the various Egyptian surūḥ. The chapter concludes with a discussion on Hebrew and Aramaic lexical items employed in the Egyptian surūḥ.Keywords: sarḥ tradition; Aramaic lexical items; Egyptian surūḥ; Jewish religiolects; Judeo-Arabic; pseudocorrections; Uriel Weinreich