9789004201019 - A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai Handbook of Oriental Studies/handbuch Der Orientalistik, 101 by De Jong, Rudolf E (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. xx, 440pp. Including 88 maps bound in at rear, most in color. Index and bibliography. Black boards lettered in white, gray and green, color map on front cover. A fine, as new copy. 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 facilitate direct comparison of all Sinai dialects, the dialect descriptions in both volumes run parallel and are thus structured in the same manner. Quoting from his own extensive material and using a total of 95 criteria for comparison, De Jong applies the method of 'multi-dimensional scaling' and his own 'step-method' to arrive at a subdivision into eight (of which seven are 'Bedouin') typological groups in Sinai. An appendix with 68 maps and dialectrometrical plots completes the picture. (Publisher) 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 ǦbÄ liyyah, AwlÄ d SaÄ«d, á ¢awÄ lá ¥ah, GarÄ rÅ¡ah and á ¤amÄ á ah with Remarks on the Dialects of the HanÄ dwah and LÄ"gÄ t.; 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 --; fÄ«h "there is / are" --; Some Conjunctions --; Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles --; Presentative Particles --; Ä¡ayr --; Intensifying Particle la --; bidd or widd + pron --; Ê»Ä d --; yabga --; Characteristics of the Narrative Style --; Pluralis paucitatis --; Concord --; A Sketchy Remark on Pitch --; 2.; A Description of the Dialects of the MzÄ"nah and Baniy WÄ á £il .; 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 --; fÄ«h "there is / are" --; Some Conjunctions --; Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles.; Presentative Particles --; Ä¡ayr --; Intensifying Particle la --; bidd or widd + pron --; Ê»Ä d --; yabga --; Characteristics of the Narrative Style --; Pluralis paucitatis --; Concord --; A Sketchy Remark on Pitch --; 3.; A Description of the Dialects of the Taá Ä bÄ«n, á ¤wÄ"á Ä t, ǦarÄ Ç§rah, TayÄ ha, BadÄ á ah, DbÅ«r and MalÄ lá ¥ah.; 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 --; fÄ«h "there is / are" --; Some Conjunctions --; Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles --; Presentative Particles --; Ä¡ayr --; Intensifying Particle la --; bidd or widd + pron --; Ê»Ä d --; 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 á ¤wÄ"á Ä t of Southern Jordan and the á ¤wÄ"á Ä t of Sinai --; Final Conclusions --; The Position of Sinai Dialects in Northwest Arabian Arabic (the NWA-group). (OCLC) Volume 101 of the Brill series, "Handbook of Oriental Studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik, Section 1, The Near and Middle East" (HdO).

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Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 440 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.