A grammar of the Bedouin dialects of central and southern Sinai [electronic resource] / by Rudolf E. de Jong.
Material type: TextSeries: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; ; Bd. 101.Publication details: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 440 pages) : illustrations, color mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004201460
- 9004201467
- Arabic language -- Dialects -- Egypt -- Sinai
- Bedouins -- Egypt -- Sinai -- Languages
- Arabic language -- Social aspects -- Egypt -- Sinai
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic
- Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects
- Encyclopaedias and reference works
- Reference works
- Arabic language -- Dialects
- Arabic language -- Social aspects
- Bedouins -- Languages
- Egypt -- Sinai
- Mundart
- Grammatik
- Beduine
- Sinai
- Arabisch
- REFERENCE / General
- 492.7/709531 22
- PJ6799.S56 J65 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 �Gb�aliyyah, Awl�ad Sa�id, �Saw�al�hah, Gar�ar�sah and �Ham�a�dah with Remarks on the Dialects of the Han�adwah and L�eg�at. 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 -- f�ih "there is / are" -- Some Conjunctions -- Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles -- Presentative Particles -- �gayr -- Intensifying Particle la -- bidd or widd + pron -- ��ad -- yabga -- Characteristics of the Narrative Style -- Pluralis paucitatis -- Concord -- A Sketchy Remark on Pitch -- 2. A Description of the Dialects of the Mz�enah and Baniy W�a�sil . 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 -- f�ih "there is / are" -- Some Conjunctions -- Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles.
Presentative Particles -- �gayr -- Intensifying Particle la -- bidd or widd + pron -- ��ad -- yabga -- Characteristics of the Narrative Style -- Pluralis paucitatis -- Concord -- A Sketchy Remark on Pitch -- 3. A Description of the Dialects of the Ta�r�ab�in, �Hw�e�t�at, �Gar�a�grah, Tay�aha, Bad�a�rah, Db�ur and Mal�al�hah. 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 -- f�ih "there is / are" -- Some Conjunctions -- Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles -- Presentative Particles -- �gayr -- Intensifying Particle la -- bidd or widd + pron -- ��ad -- 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 �Hw�e�t�at of Southern Jordan and the �Hw�e�t�at of Sinai -- Final Conclusions -- The Position of Sinai Dialects in Northwest Arabian Arabic (the NWA-group).
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