A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai.

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Author / Creator:De Jong, Rudolf E., author.
Imprint:Brill, 2011.
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Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12625540
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ISBN:9789004201019
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English.
Summary:This book complements A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill: 2000) thus completing the author's description of Bedouin dialects of Sinai. Earlier and new data are synthesized in a dialectometrical approach for a subdivision into eight groups.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Symbols; Preface; Introduction; I. General; a. Central and Southern Sinai in Recent History; b. Cultural Background; c. Present-day Distribution of Bedouin Tribes in Central and Southern Sinai and Surrounding Regions; d. Remarks on the Arrival of Bedouin Tribes in Central and Southern Sinai and some Remarks on their History; e. Professional Activities of Bedouin in Central Southern Sinai Today; f. Research Questions and Purpose of this Study; II. Fieldwork Methodology; a. Infrastructural Arrangements; b. Selecting Targets for Field Research.
  • C. Selecting Informantsd. Gathering Linguistic Material; e. Difficulties during Field Research; III. Presentation of the Data; a. Presentation of the Data and Selecting Criteria for Comparison; b. Method of Description; Chapter One: A Description of the Dialects of the Ǧbāliyyah, Awlād Sa'īd, Sạwālhạh, Garāršah and Hạmādạh with Remarks on the Dialects of the Hanādwah and 'Lēgāt; Introduction; 1. Phonology; 1.1. Consonants; 1.2. Vowels; 2. Stress and Phonotactics; 2.1. Stress; 2.2. Phonotactics; 2.3. Anaptyxis; 2.4. Elision of Short Vowels; 2.5. Assimilation; 3. Morphology.
  • 3.1. Nominal Morphology3.2. Verbal Morphology; 4. Remarks on Phraseology; 4.1. Nunation; 4.2. Negation; 4.3. The b-imperfect; 4.4. Future Marker; 4.5. fīh "there is / are"; 4.6. Some Conjunctions; 4.7. Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles; 4.8. Presentative Particles; 4.9. ġayr; 4.10. Intensifying Particle la; 4.11. bidd or widd + pron. suffix; 4.12. 'ād; 4.13. yabga; 4.14. Characteristics of the Narrative Style; 4.15. Pluralis paucitatis; 4.16. Concord; 5. A Sketchy Remark on Pitch; Chapter Two: A Description of the Dialects of the Mzēnah and Baniy Wāsịl; Introduction; 1. Phonology.
  • 1.1. Consonants1.2. Vowels; 2. Stress and Phonotactics; 2.1. Stress; 2.2. Phonotactics; 2.3. Anaptyxis; 2.4. Elision of Short Vowels; 2.5. Assimilation; 3. Morphology; 3.1. Nominal Morphology; 3.2. Verbal Morphology; 4. Remarks on Phraseology; 4.1. Nunation; 4.2. Negation; 4.3. The b-imperfect; 4.4. Future Marker; 4.5. fīh "there is / are"; 4.6. Some Conjunctions; 4.7. Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles; 4.8. Presentative Particles; 4.9. ġayr; 4.10. Intensifying Particle la; 4.11. bidd or widd + pron. suffix; 4.12. 'ād; 4.13. yabga; 4.14. Characteristics of the Narrative Style.
  • 4.15. Pluralis paucitatis4.16. Concord; 5. A Sketchy Remark on Pitch; Chapter Three: A Description of the Dialects of the Tarạ̄bīn, Hẉētạ̄t, Ǧarāǧrah, Tayāha, Badārạh, Dbūr and Malālhạh; Introduction; 1. Phonology; 1.1. Consonants; 1.2. Vowels; 2. Stress and Phonotactics; 2.1. Stress; 2.2. Phonotactics; 2.3. Anaptyxis; 2.4. Elision of Short Vowels; 2.5. Assimilation; 3. Morphology; 3.1. Nominal Morphology; 3.2. Verbal Morphology; 4. Remarks on Phraseology; 4.1. Nunation; 4.2. Negation; 4.3. The b-imperfect; 4.4. Future Marker; 4.5. fīh "there is / are"; 4.6. Some Conjunctions.