Communal dialects in Baghdad /

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Author / Creator:Blanc, Haim, author.
Edition:Revised reprint.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.
©2024
Description:xxxiv, 194 pages : portrait, map ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 111
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 111.
Subject:
Arabic language -- Dialects -- Iraq -- Baghdad.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13494014
Related Items:Reproduction of (manifestation): Communal dialects in Baghdad
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Other authors / contributors:Blanc, David, editor.
Borg, Alexander, editor.
Wexler, Paul, writer of foreword.
ISBN:9789004689794
9004689796
9789004689886
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-165) and index.
Summary:"Haim Blanc's Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the years 1957-1962, this book portaits the extensive regional continuum of modern spoken Arabic stretching across parts of Mesopotamia and N. Syria, evinced by the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speech communities in Baghdad. Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers." --
Other form:Electronic version : Blanc, Haim. Communal dialects in Baghdad. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024 9789004689886
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Haim Blanc-a Biographical Sketch
  • Editorial Preamble
  • Foreword
  • Map: The Mesopotamian Dialect Area
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Aim and Scope
  • 1.2. Sources
  • 1.2.1. Baghdad
  • 1.2.2. Other Dialects
  • 1.3. The Mesopotamian Dialect Area
  • 1.3.1. Overall view. The qeltu/gelet split
  • 1.3.2. Main Contrastive Features of the qeltu-gelet Split
  • 1.4. The Baghdad Situation
  • 1.4.1. Majority and Minorities: Some Figures
  • 1.4.2. Correlation between Community and Dialect
  • 1.4.3. Degree of Uniformity within Each Dialect
  • 1.4.4. Communal Dialects in the Rest of Iraq
  • 1.4.5. Affinities with Other Dialects
  • 2. Communal Dialects in the Arab World
  • 2.1. Social Dialects
  • 2.1.1. Socio-Economic Groupings
  • 2.1.2. Religious Groupings
  • 2.2. Communal Differentiation in Arabic
  • 2.2.1. Overall View
  • 2.2.2. Minor Differentiation
  • 2.2.3. Intermediate Differentiation
  • 2.2.4. Major Differentiation
  • 3. Phonology
  • 3.1. Procedure and Notation
  • 3.2. Consonants
  • 3.2.1. Overall View
  • 3.2.2. Reflexes of the OA Interdentals
  • 3.2.3. Reflexes of OA/l/
  • 3.2.4. Reflexes of OA/r/
  • 3.2.5. Reflexes of OA/k/
  • 3.2.6. Reflexes of OA/q/
  • 3.3. Vowels
  • 3.3.1. Overall View
  • 3.3.2. Reflexes of OA/i/and/u/
  • 3.3.3. Reflexes of OA/a/
  • 3.3.4. Reflexes of OA/i/and/u/
  • 3.3.5. Reflexes of OA Final /a'/
  • 3.3.7. The 'imala
  • 3.3.7. Reflexes of OA /ay/and/aw/
  • 3.4. Stress
  • 3.5. Consonant Clusters and Anaptyxis
  • 3.5.1. Overall View
  • 3.5.2. Final Clusters
  • 4. Morphology
  • 4.1. Procedure and Notation
  • 4.1.1. Basic Morphophonemics
  • 4.1.2. Overall View
  • 4.2. The Pronoun
  • 4.2.1. Subject Pronouns
  • 4.2.2. Object Pronouns
  • 4.2.3. Indirect and Double Object Pronouns
  • 4.3. The Feminine Suffix
  • 4.3.1. Overall View
  • 4.3.2. Allomorphs in the Isolated Noun
  • 4.3.3. Allomorphs in Sandhi
  • 4.3.4. Unit Nouns
  • 4.4. Some Other Suffixes
  • 4.4.1. The Sound Plural Suffixes
  • 4.4.2. Relational and Agent Suffixes 65 [74]
  • 4.4.3. Hypocoristic Suffixes
  • 4.5. The Noun 66
  • 4.5.1. Overall View
  • 4.5.2. Irregular patterns
  • 4.5.3. Regular Patterns 67 [75]
  • 4.6. The Numerals
  • 4.6.1. The Cardinal Numbers
  • 4.6.2. The Ordinals
  • 4.7. The Participle
  • 4.7.1. Form I Participles
  • 4.7.2. Participles of Forms II and III
  • 4.7.3. Other Participles
  • 4.8. The Verb
  • 4.8.1. Overall View
  • 4.8.2. Form I
  • 4.8.3. Forms II, III, V, and VI, and Quadriconsonantal Verbs
  • 4.8.4. Form IV
  • 4.8.5. Form VII
  • 4.8.6. Form VIII
  • 4.8.7. Form IX
  • 4.8.8. Form X
  • 4.8.8. Verb Modifiers
  • 4.9. Other Morpheme Classes
  • 4.9.1. Determination Markers
  • 4.9.2. The Relative L'
  • 4.9.3. Reflexes of OA/li/and /'lta/
  • 4.9.4. Some Prepositions
  • 5. Some Syntactic Features
  • 5.2. Introductory
  • 5.2. The Postpositional Copula
  • 5.2.1. C vs. MJ
  • 5.2.2. Comparative
  • 5.3. Absence of Article
  • 5.3.1. Constructions with/mal/
  • 5.3.2. Noun Plus Qualifier
  • 5.4. Anticipatory Pronoun Suffix Plus L
  • 5.4.1. Object of Verb
  • 5.4.2. Object of Preposition and Noun
  • 6. Some Lexical Features
  • 6.1. Introductory
  • 6.2. Basic Vocabulary
  • 6.2.1. The Swadesh List
  • 6.2.2. The Ferguson-Said List
  • 6.3. Interrogatives and Demonstratives
  • 6.3.1. Overall View
  • 6.3.2. Interrogatives
  • 6.3.3. The Demonstratives
  • 6.4. Elements of Non-Arabic Origin
  • 6.4.1. Turkish, Persian, Aramaic
  • 6.4.2. The Hebrew Element in J
  • 6.5. Selected Lexical Items
  • 7. Summary and Conclusion
  • 7.1. Summary of Findings
  • 7.1.1. Muslims vs. Non-Muslims
  • 7.1.2. Jews vs. Christians
  • 7.1.3. Christians vs. Mosul
  • 7.1.4. Muslim vs. the Countryside
  • 7.1.5. Uniqueness of J
  • 7.2. Characterization of the Dialects
  • 7.2.1. Conservatism in JC
  • 7.2.2. Beduinization in M
  • 7.2.3. A Glance at Iraqi History
  • Abbreviations Used in References and Notes
  • References Cited
  • Notes
  • Index

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