| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 440 pages) : illustrations, color maps. |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 1, The Near and Middle East ; v. 101 |
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Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Bd. 101.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
| Language |
English. |
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Egypt -- Sinai.
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Bedouins -- Egypt -- Sinai -- Languages.
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Arabic language -- Social aspects -- Egypt -- Sinai.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects.
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Encyclopaedias and reference works.
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Reference works.
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Arabic language -- Dialects.
(OCoLC)fst00812310
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Arabic language -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00812426
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Bedouins -- Languages.
(OCoLC)fst00829505
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Egypt -- Sinai.
(OCoLC)fst01202965
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Mundart.
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Grammatik.
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Beduine.
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Sinai.
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Arabisch.
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REFERENCE / General.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jong, Rudolf Erik de. Grammar of the Bedouin dialects of central and southern Sinai. Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004201019 (DLC) 2011006129 (OCoLC)702357983 |
| ISBN |
9789004201460 (electronic bk.) |
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9004201467 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004201019 |
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9004201017 |
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