A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai

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Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Abbreviations and Symbols......Page 16
Preface......Page 20
a. Central and Southern Sinai in Recent History......Page 22
c. Present-day Distribution of Bedouin Tribes in Central and Southern Sinai and Surrounding Regions......Page 23
d. Remarks on the Arrival of Bedouin Tribes in Central and Southern Sinai and some Remarks on their History......Page 24
e. Professional Activities of Bedouin in Central Southern Sinai Today......Page 29
f. Research Questions and Purpose of this Study......Page 30
a. Infrastructural Arrangements......Page 31
b. Selecting Targets for Field Research......Page 33
c. Selecting Informants......Page 34
e. Difficulties during Field Research......Page 38
a. Presentation of the Data and Selecting Criteria for Comparison......Page 39
b. Method of Description......Page 40
Introduction......Page 42
1.1. Consonants......Page 44
1.2. Vowels......Page 48
2.1. Stress......Page 60
2.2. Phonotactics......Page 67
2.3. Anaptyxis......Page 69
2.4. Elision of Short Vowels......Page 75
2.5. Assimilation......Page 76
3.1. Nominal Morphology......Page 77
3.2. Verbal Morphology......Page 100
4.2. Negation......Page 122
4.4. Future Marker......Page 123
4.6. Some Conjunctions......Page 124
4.7. Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles......Page 127
4.8. Presentative Particles......Page 129
4.11. bidd or widd + pron. suffix......Page 131
4.13. yabga......Page 132
4.14. Characteristics of the Narrative Style......Page 133
4.16. Concord......Page 134
5. A Sketchy Remark on Pitch......Page 135
Introduction......Page 136
1.1. Consonants......Page 137
1.2. Vowels......Page 141
2.1. Stress......Page 153
2.2. Phonotactics......Page 157
2.3. Anaptyxis......Page 160
2.4. Elision of Short Vowels......Page 165
2.5. Assimilation......Page 167
3.1. Nominal Morphology......Page 169
3.2. Verbal Morphology......Page 183
4.2. Negation......Page 203
4.4. Future Marker......Page 204
4.6. Some Conjunctions......Page 205
4.7. Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles......Page 208
4.8. Presentative Particles......Page 210
4.13. yabga......Page 211
4.14. Characteristics of the Narrative Style......Page 212
5. A Sketchy Remark on Pitch......Page 213
Introduction......Page 214
1.1. Consonants......Page 215
1.2. Vowels......Page 219
2.1. Stress......Page 236
2.2. Phonotactics......Page 241
2.3. Anaptyxis......Page 244
2.4. Elision of Short Vowels......Page 247
3.1. Nominal Morphology......Page 249
3.2. Verbal Morphology......Page 271
4.3. The b-imperfect......Page 293
4.5. fīh “there is / are”......Page 294
4.6. Some Conjunctions......Page 295
4.7. Auxiliaries and Verbal Particles......Page 298
4.8. Presentative Particles......Page 300
4.9. ġayr......Page 301
4.12. ʿād......Page 302
4.14. Characteristics of the Narrative Style......Page 303
5. A Sketchy Remark on Pitch......Page 305
a. Methods of Comparing Dialects......Page 306
a. Criteria for Comparison from De Jong 2000 Producing Differences/Similarities in Central and Southern Sinai......Page 308
b. Added Criteria for Comparison of Dialects in Central and Southern Sinai......Page 319
a. The Identified Isoglosses in Central and Southern Sinai......Page 320
b. The Step Method to Calculate Relative Typological Distances between Dialects......Page 330
c. A Continuum: From Group VII Through Group VIII Towards Group I......Page 333
d. Multi-Dimensional Scaling......Page 335
e. ‘Bedouinness’ vs ‘Sedentariness’......Page 337
f. The Locations of Isogloss Bundles in Central and Southern Sinai......Page 344
g. A ‘Virtual’ Isogloss Bundle, Number –39–: BWA and MzA......Page 347
a. Some Remarks on Methods of Illustrating Typological Similarities/Differences of Dialects......Page 350
b. Multi-Dimensional Scaling in a Two-Dimensional Map......Page 352
c. Other Results of the MDS Plot......Page 353
d. Grouping Dialects Using a Dendrogram......Page 355
e. What Informants Say......Page 358
V. A Comparison of the Dialect of the Ḥwēṭāt of Southern Jordan and the Ḥwēṭāt of Sinai......Page 359
a. The Position of Sinai Dialects in Northwest Arabian Arabic (the NWA-group)......Page 373
Bibliography......Page 378
Index......Page 382
Appendix......Page 390