A grammar of the Bedouin dialects of central and southern Sinai /
After publishing A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill:2000), Rudolf de Jong completes his description of the Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Desert of Egypt by adding the present volume. To facil...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Boston : Brill,
2011.
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Colección: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ;
Bd. 101. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- General
- Central and Southern Sinai in Recent History
- Cultural Background
- Present-day Distribution of Bedouin Tribes in Central and Southern Sinai and Surrounding Regions
- Remarks on the Arrival of Bedouin Tribes in Central and Southern Sinai and some Remarks on their History
- Professional Activities of Bedouin in Central and Southern Sinai Today
- Research Questions and Purpose of this Study
- Fieldwork Methodology
- Infrastructural Arrangements
- Selecting Targets for Field Research
- Selecting Informants
- Gathering Linguistic Material
- Difficulties during Field Research
- Presentation of the Data
- Presentation of the Data and Selecting Criteria for Comparison
- Method of Description
- 1. A Description of the Dialects of the Ǧbāliyyah, Awlād Saīd, Ṣawālḥah, Garāršah and Ḥamāḍah with Remarks on the Dialects of the Hanādwah and Lēgāt. Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels.
- Stress and Phonotactics
- Stress
- Phonotactics
- Anaptyxis
- Elision of Short Vowels
- Assimilation
- Morphology
- Nominal Morphology
- Verbal Morphology
- Remarks on Phraseology
- Nunation
- Negation
- The b-imperfect
- Future Marker
- fīh "there is / are"
- Some Conjunctions
- Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles
- Presentative Particles
- ġayr
- Intensifying Particle la
- bidd or widd + pron
- ʻād
- yabga
- Characteristics of the Narrative Style
- Pluralis paucitatis
- Concord
- A Sketchy Remark on Pitch
- 2. A Description of the Dialects of the Mzēnah and Baniy Wāṣil . Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Stress and Phonotactics
- Stress
- Phonotactics
- Anaptyxis
- Elision of Short Vowels
- Assimilation
- Morphology
- Nominal Morphology
- Verbal Morphology
- Remarks on Phraseology
- Nunation
- Negation
- The b-imperfect
- Future Marker
- fīh "there is / are"
- Some Conjunctions
- Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles.
- Presentative Particles
- ġayr
- Intensifying Particle la
- bidd or widd + pron
- ʻād
- yabga
- Characteristics of the Narrative Style
- Pluralis paucitatis
- Concord
- A Sketchy Remark on Pitch
- 3. A Description of the Dialects of the Taṛābīn, Ḥwēṭāt, Ǧarāǧrah, Tayāha, Badāṛah, Dbūr and Malālḥah. Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Stress and Phonotactics
- Stress
- Phonotactics
- Anaptyxis
- Elision of Short Vowels
- Assimilation
- Morphology
- Nominal Morphology
- Verbal Morphology
- Remarks on Phraseology
- Nunation
- Negation
- The b-imperfect
- Future Marker
- fīh "there is / are"
- Some Conjunctions
- Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles
- Presentative Particles
- ġayr
- Intensifying Particle la
- bidd or widd + pron
- ʻād
- yabga
- Characteristics of the Narrative Style
- Pluralis paucitatis
- Concord
- A Sketchy Remark on Pitch.
- Comparing Dialects
- Methods of Comparing Dialects
- Remarks to the Maps in the Appendix
- Criteria for Comparison from De Jong 2000 Producing Diffferences/Similarities in Central and Southern Sinai
- Added Criteria for Comparison of Dialects in Central and Southern Sinai
- Isoglosses
- The Identified Isoglosses in Central and Southern Sinai
- The Step Method to Calculate Relative Typological Distances between Dialects
- A Continuum: From Group VII Through Group VIII Towards Group I
- Multi-Dimensional Scaling
- 'Bedouinness' vs 'Sedentariness'
- The Locations of Isogloss Bundles in Central and Southern Sinai
- A 'Virtual' Isogloss Bundle, Number -39-: BWA and MzA
- Methods of Illustrating Dialect Diffferences
- Some Remarks on Methods of Illustrating Typological Similarities/Diffferences of Dialects
- Multi-Dimensional Scaling in a Two-Dimensional Map
- Other Results of the MDS Plot
- Grouping Dialects Using a Dendrogram
- What Informants Say
- A Comparison of the Dialect of the Ḥwēṭāt of Southern Jordan and the Ḥwēṭāt of Sinai
- Final Conclusions
- The Position of Sinai Dialects in Northwest Arabian Arabic (the NWA-group).