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The linguistic description contained in Volume 1: Glossary, (2001) and the present Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style, is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest. General Introduction 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, as spoken and remembered by uneducated Bahrainis who were aged forty or over in the mid-1970s. This book is printed on acid-free paper.Ĭontents 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 (tanwīn) 131 3.8 Numerals 134Ĥ 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 1 479 Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. For more information, please see /brill-typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. Library of Congress control number: 00051896 Volume Three: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style By
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The titles published in this series are listed at /ho1ĭialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia Şükrü Hanioğlu (Princeton) Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania) Kees Versteegh (Nijmegen)ĭialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style The Near and Middle East Edited by Maribel Fierro (Madrid) M.
