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Author : Aaron Rubin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004187627
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in Oman and Yemen. It is the first grammar of its kind, and the first of any Modern South Arabian language in a century.
Author : Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004362475
This book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts, presented with extensive commentary, were collected by the late T.M. Johnstone. Some are published here for the first time, while the rest have been newly edited and translated, based on the original manuscripts. Semitists, linguists, and anyone interested in the folklore of southern Arabia will find much valuable data and analysis in this volume, which is the most detailed grammatical study of a Modern South Arabian language yet published.
Author : Thomas M. Johnstone,Harry Stroomer
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 344704215X
Mehri is a South-Semitic language spoken by some 100.000 people in the far eastern governorate in Yemen and in the mountains of Dhofar in Oman. The Mehri texts in this book represent the Omani dialect. The texts are based on the fieldwork materials of the late Professor T. M. Johnstone (1924-1983), an expert in this field.The author Harry Stroomer (Leiden University, The Netherlands) is a specialist in South-Semitic and Berber languages.
Author : Janet C. E. Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mahri language
ISBN : 3447067365
Mehri is the most widely spoken of the six Modern South Arabian languages, with populations in eastern Yemen, western Oman, the southern fringes of Saudi Arabia, and parts of the Gulf. The Structure of Mehri is a comprehensive linguistic description of two major Mehri dialect groups: Mahriyot, the eastern Yemeni dialect of Mehri spoken in ?awf, and Mehreyyet, the Mehri of the Omani Najd. It provides the first description of Mahriyot, complementing Wagner (1953), which examines Mehriyet, the western Yemeni dialect of Mehri, and extending Rubin (2010), which deals with Mehreyyet. Based on fieldwork conducted by the author and material in Sima (2009) this is one of the first studies of any non-state language to include data from new technology (SMS and e-mail). Considering also other Modern South Arabian languages where relevant, phonology, morphology and syntax of Mahriyot and Mehreyyet is analysed and compared. Within syntax, particular attention is paid to phrase structure, clause structure, coordination, negation and supplementation. Furthermore, the final chapter provides a selection of the transcribed, translated and annotated oral texts used in the book.
Author : Aaron Rubin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004182639
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in Oman and Yemen. It is the first grammar of its kind, and the first of any Modern South Arabian language in a century.
Author : Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004262850
This book contains a detailed grammatical description of Jibbali (or Shahri), an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with seventy texts. This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of Jibbali, and the first collection of texts published in over a hundred years. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts include those collected by the late T. M. Johnstone (newly edited and translated), as well as new texts collected by the author, while the grammar is based both on the texts and on original fieldwork. Semitists, linguists, and anyone interested in the folklore of Arabia will find much valuable data and analysis in this volume.
Author : Harry Stroomer,Thomas M. Johnstone
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015059211261
Harsusi is a South Semitic language spoken in the Jiddat al-Harasis area in Oman by some 500 to 1500 speakers. It is strongly related to Mehri, a language spoken in Oman and Yemen, with some 100000 speakers. There is very little documentation on Harsusi. The only work available was the H.arsusi Lexicon by T.M. Johnstone (d. 1983), who did fieldwork not only on Harsusi but on all six South Semitic languages in the early seventies of the 20th century.The texts on which T.M. Johnstone based his Harsusi Lexicon are published in this book. Or to put it differently: with these texts Johnstone's Harsusi Lexicon comes to life.
Author : Janet C. E. Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Mahri language
ISBN : 3447113731
This book is the first coursebook to deal with the Modern South Arabian language, Mehri. Focussing on Mehri as spoken in Central Dhofar, Oman, the work results from several years' close collaboration with four native speakers of Mehri. The book is multimodal, supported by a large number of audio and audio-visual texts from the Mehri archive housed at the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. It comprises twenty lessons and a glossary of all terms occurring in the lessons. Dialogues within the lessons focus as far as possible on aspects of the traditional culture of the Mahrah, thus introducing the student not only to the language, but also to issues of cultural importance.
Author : John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429655388
The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following: • new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology • an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic • text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation • new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference. This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development.
Author : Izre'el
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004659384
Author : Aaron Butts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004300156
This volume contains twenty case studies analysing various aspects of language contact involving ancient and modern Semitic languages.
Author : Thomas M. Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036144561
Author : Geoffrey Haig,Geoffrey Khan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110421682
The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Kartvelian, Semitic, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in areal contact over many centuries. This volume presents descriptions of the modern languages, contributed by leading specialists, and evaluates similarities across the languages that may have arisen by areal contact. It begins with an introductory chapter presenting an overview of the various genetic groupings in the region and summarizing some of the significant features and issues relating to language contact. In the core of the volume the presentation of the languages is divided into five contact areas, which include (i) eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran, (ii) northern Iraq, (iii) western Iran, (iv) the Caspian region and south Azerbaijan, and (v) the Caucasian rim and southern Black Sea coast. Each section contains chapters devoted to the languages of the area preceded by an introductory section that highlights significant contact phenomena. The volume is rounded off by an appendix with basic lexical items across a selection of the languages. The handbook features contributions by Erik Anonby, Denise Bailey, Christiane Bulut, David Erschler, Geoffrey Haig, Geoffrey Khan, Rene Lacroix, Parvin Mahmoudveysi, Hrach Martirosyan, Ludwig Paul, Stephan Procházka, Laurentia Schreiber, Don Stilo, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Christina van der Wal Anonby.
Author : Youssef A. Haddad,Eric Potsdam
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266897
This volume makes important contributions to the growing body of descriptive and theoretical studies in Arabic linguistics. It focuses on the rich linguistic work being done on Arabic dialects. The papers on individual dialects draw attention to the micro-variation that exists, emphasize that they do not comprise a uniform group, and reveal the implications of dialectal variation for linguistic theory. The chapters are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, syntax, and sociolinguistics. They address first and second language acquisition, historical linguistics, phonetics, aspects of negation, light verb constructions, raising verbs, and sociolinguistic variation. The book is indispensable reading for those working in dialect description, the analysis of Arabic and the Semitic languages, and linguistic theory more generally.
Author : Leonid Kogan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614519218
This volume is the first of its kind to provide a detailed, comprehensive treatment of the genealogical subgrouping of Semitic. Starting with the traditional, morphologic approach and then shifting to the pertinent lexical evidence, it covers key topics in the Semitic subgrouping debate, including the East/West dichotomy, the Central Semitic hypothesis, the Canaanite affiliation of Ugaritic, and the linguistic specificity of Modern South Arabia.