Ingham of Arabia : a collection of articles presented as a tribute to the career of Bruce Ingham / edited by Clive Holes and Rudolf de Jong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holes, Clive, 1948- editor.

Jong, Rudolf de, editor.

Ingham, Bruce, honouree.

Series:

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 69.

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Dialects.

Arabic language.

Sociolinguistics--Arab countries.

Sociolinguistics.

Arab countries.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Contents:

Preface

Bibliography: Bruce Ingham

About bedouin tents and other tents, or "tent terminology as an example of semantic shift" / Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich

Tense and aspect in Semitic: a case study based on the Arabic of the Omani sarqiyya and the Mehri of Dhofar / Domenyk Eades and Janet C.E. Watson

From phonological variation to grammatical change: depalatalisation of /c/ in Salti / Bruno Herin and Enam Al-Wer

Representation of women's language in Negev Bedouin men's texts / Roni Henkin

An Arabic text from 'ur, Oman / Clive Holes

Grammaticalizations based on the verb kana in Arabic dialects / Otto Jastrow

Texts in Sinai bedouin dialects / Rudolf de Jong

Lexical notes on the dialect of Mayadin (Eastern Syria) in the late 1970s, with Jean Cantineau's fieldnotes of 1935 / Jérôme Lentin

Modern Arabic dialectology: what are kaskasa and kaskasa, really? / Jonathan Owens

Interesting facts on ancient mounds' three texts in the bedouin Arabic dialect of the Harran-Urfa-Region (Southeastern Turkey) / Stephan Procházka

Antigemination as morphosemantic integrity in Arabic dialects / Kirsty Rowan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004256170

9004256172

OCLC:

847532127