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Omani Mehri : a new grammar with texts / by Aaron D. Rubin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rubin, Aaron D., 1976-
- Series:
- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 93.
- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 93
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mehri language--Grammar.
- Mehri language.
- Mehri language--Texts.
- Mehri language--Oman.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (898 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- Text Citation
- A Note on Transcription and Translation
- Grammar
- Introduction
- Phonology
- Pronouns
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Verbs: Stems
- Verbs: Tenses and Forms
- Prepositions
- Numerals
- Adverbs
- Interrogatives
- Particles
- Some Syntactic Features
- Texts
- Johnstone’s Texts from Ali Musallam
- Texts 54 and 65 with Morpheme Glossing
- Texts 54 and 65 in Arabic Script
- Supplement to Johnstone’s Mehri Lexicon
- Additions and Corrections to The Jibbali (Shaḥri) Language of Oman: Grammar and Texts
- Back Matter
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rubin, Aaron D., 1976- author. Omani Mehri
- ISBN:
- 9789004362475
- 9004362479
- OCLC:
- 1021058262
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004362475 DOI
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