A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20101-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 101, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 933 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

After publishing A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill:2000), Rudolf de Jong completes his description of the Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Desert of Egypt by adding the present volume. To facilitate direct comparison of all Sinai dialects, the dialect descriptions in both volumes run parallel and are thus structured in the same manner. Quoting from his own extensive material and using a total of 95 criteria for comparison, De Jong applies the method of 'multi-dimensional scaling' and his own 'step-method' to arrive at a subdivision into eight (of which seven are 'Bedouin') typological groups in Sinai. An appendix with 68 maps and dialectrometrical plots completes the picture.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in dialectology of Arabic, dialect contact, dialect geography and dialectometrical methodology, as well as semitists, sociolinguists and those with a general interest in the Arabic language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Jong, Rudolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolf E. de Jong, Ph.D. (1999) in Humanities, University of Amsterdam, is currently Guest Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, teaches Arabic at Leiden University, is co-General Editor for the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online and is Secretary of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA). He has published A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill: 2000), as well as several articles.