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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jong, Rudolf Erik de
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2011.
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).