Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style

Author:   Clive Holes
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   51/3
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9789004302631


Pages:   490
Publication Date:   15 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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The aim of Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia is to give a detailed description of the Arabic dialects and culture of the island state of Bahrain of the pre-oil era. The present Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style, is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest.

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Author:   Clive Holes
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   51/3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.915kg
ISBN:  

9789004302631


ISBN 10:   9004302638
Pages:   490
Publication Date:   15 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

General Introduction vii Acknowledgements xi Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style xiii Map 1 and Key xiv Map 2 and Key xv Abbreviations and Conventions xvi References xviii 1 Communities, Histories, and Dialects in Bahrain and the Wider Gulf 1 1.1 Communities 1 1.2 Historical Memory, Real and Imagined 6 1.3 Language History 10 1.4 Core and Periphery 32 1.5 Eastern Arabia and Central Asia 41 1.6 Summary and Conclusions 48 2 Phonology 50 2.1 Phoneme Inventory: Consonants 50 2.2 Phoneme Inventory: Vowels 65 2.3 The Syllable 69 2.4 Consonant Clusters 71 2.5 Stress 76 2.6 Phonotactics 76 3 Morphology (I) 81 3.1 Pronouns 81 3.2 Adverbs 100 3.3 Particles 103 3.4 Nouns 116 3.5 Adjectives 128 3.6 The Construct State 130 3.7 Nunation (tanwin) 131 3.8 Numerals 134 vi contents 4 Morphology (II) 138 4.1 Verb Patterns and Stems: Active Voice 138 4.2 The Internal (`Apophonic') Passive 166 4.3 Quadriliterals 168 4.4 Inflectional Morphology 184 4.5 The Strong Verb: Imperative 201 4.6 The Strong Verb: Participles 202 4.7 The Verbal Noun 204 4.8 The Geminate Verb 209 4.9 The Weak Verb 209 4.10 Irregular Verbs 211 5 Syntax 213 5.1 The Noun Phrase (NP) 213 5.2 The Verb Phrase (VP) 227 5.3 Agreement 326 5.4 Word Order 354 5.5 Clause Co-ordination 369 5.6 Subordinate Noun Clauses 374 5.7 Relative Clauses 387 5.8 Clauses of Reason 391 5.9 Clauses of Purpose and Result 393 5.10 Clauses of Comparison and Degree 397 5.11 Conditional and Time Clauses 402 6 Style in Spoken Discourse 434 6.1 Involving the Listener/ Interlocutor 435 6.2 Narrative Techniques 447 6.3 Dramatization 458 6.4 Affect 463 7 Some Trends in Dialectal Change Since the Mid-1970s 467 7.1 Sociolinguistic Studies of Bahrain of the 1970s 467 7.2 The Work of al-Qouz (2009) 469 7.3 Further Observations Post-1970s 474 Further addenda and corrigenda to Volume I 479

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The reviewed reviewed work is the culmination of Holes's yearslong research on the communal dialects of Bahrain. The grammatical description, which together with the earlier two volumes makes up the series Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, is probably the only such extensive description of dialects in terms of historical significance. I can only hope that in the coming years researchers will begin new studies on dialects currently used in Bahrain. The last chapter is an excellent contribution, and Holes's complete work will be an unparalleled source for comparative studies. - Maciej Klimiuk, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114/3 (2019)


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Clive D. Holes, Ph.D. (1981) in Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is Professor Emeritus for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the Arabic language and its dialects, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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