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Omani Mehri : a new grammar with texts /
This book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts, pres...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Colección: | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ;
93. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; List of Texts; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Symbols; Text Citation; A Note on Transcription and Translation; Part 1. Grammar; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. Previous Scholarship on Mehri and MSA; 1.2. Dialects of Mehri; 1.3. The Position of Mehri within MSA; 1.4. The Position of MSA in Semitic; 1.5. Johnstone's Mehri Texts; 1.6. Johnstone's Audio Material; 1.7. This Grammar; Chapter 2. Phonology; 2.1. Mehri Consonants; 2.1.1. Glottalic Consonants; 2.1.2. "Idle Glottis" Consonants; 2.1.3. The Consonants ʼ and ʻ
- 2.1.4. The Non-occurrence and Assimilation of h-2.1.5. The Loss of l; 2.1.6. The Loss of t; 2.1.7. Assimilation of ð; 2.1.8. Gemination; 2.1.9. The Shift of b > m; 2.1.10. Word-final -nC; 2.2. Mehri Vowels; 2.2.1. The Effects of Glottalic Consonants on Vowels; 2.2.2. The Effects of Guttural Consonants on Vowels; 2.2.3. The Effects of Liquids, w, and n on Vowels; 2.2.4. Word-final Vowels, -h, and -ʼ; 2.2.5. The Loss of ǝ; 2.3. Word Stress; Chapter 3. Pronouns; 3.1. Independent Personal Pronouns; 3.2. Suffixed Pronouns; 3.2.1. Suffixes on Singular Nouns
- 3.2.2. Suffixes on Plural Nouns3.2.3. Suffixes on Verbs; 3.3. Direct Object Pronouns (t-); 3.4. Demonstratives; 3.5. Indefinite Pronouns; 3.5.1. ǝḥād and ṭāṭ 'someone'; 3.5.2. śī 'something, any(thing)' and śī lā 'nothing, not any(thing)'; 3.5.3. kāl ǝḥād and kāl ṭāṭ 'everyone; each one'; 3.5.4. kāl śīyǝn 'everything'; 3.5.5. fǝlān(ǝ), ǝl-fǝlāni, ḥadd ǝl-fǝlāni; 3.5.6. ḥǝyálla ṭāṭ 'whoever'; 3.5.7. Other Indefinite Pronouns; 3.6. Reflexives; 3.7. Reciprocals; 3.8. Relative Pronouns; 3.8.1. Relative ð-; 3.8.2. kāl ð- 'whoever'; 3.8.3. ǝlhān; 3.8.4. Relative mǝn hāl
- Chapter 4. Nouns4.1. Gender; 4.2. Duals; 4.3. Plurals; 4.3.1. Masculine External Plurals; 4.3.2. Feminine External Plurals; 4.3.3. Internal Plurals; 4.4. Definite Article; 4.5. Diminutives; 4.6. Construct State; Chapter 5. Adjectives; 5.1. Agreement; 5.2. Declension; 5.3. Substantivization; 5.4. Comparatives; 5.5. Quantifiers; 5.5.1. ʻáynǝt 'a little'; 5.5.2. bāṣ́ 'some'; 5.5.3. kāl 'each, every; all'; 5.5.4. l-ādēd ð- 'each, every'; 5.5.5. mēkǝn 'a lot, many'; Chapter 6. Verbs: Stems; 6.1. G-Stem; 6.1.1. Ga-Stem; 6.1.2. Ga Internal Passive; 6.1.3. Gb-Stem
- 6.1.4. Ga vs. Gb Meaning6.2. D/L-Stem; 6.2.1. D/L-Stem Variants; 6.2.2. Origin of the D/L-Stem Prefix; 6.2.3. D/L-Stem Meaning; 6.3. H-Stem; 6.3.1. H-Stem Meaning; 6.3.2. H Internal Passive; 6.4. Š-Stems; 6.4.1. Š1-Stem Form; 6.4.2. Š1-Stem Meaning; 6.4.3. Š2-Stem Form; 6.4.4. Š2-Stem Meaning; 6.5. T-Stems; 6.5.1. T1-Stem Form; 6.5.2. T1-Stem Meaning; 6.5.3. T2-Stem Form; 6.5.4. T2-Stem Meaning; 6.6. Quadriliterals; 6.6.1. Basic Quadriliterals (Q-Stems); 6.6.2. N-Stem Quadriliterals (NQ-Stems); 6.6.3. Š-Stem Quadriliterals (ŠQ-Stems)