Omani Mehri

A New Grammar with Texts
Approx. XXVI, 863 Pp., Index Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-35735-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 93, 874 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1633 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubin, Aaron D

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Texts
Abbreviations and Symbols
Text Citation
A Note on Transcription and Translation

Grammar

1 Introduction
1.1 Previous Scholarship on Mehri and MSA
1.2 Dialects of Mehri
1.3 The Position of Mehri within MSA
1.4 The Position of MSA in Semitic
1.5 Johnstone’s Mehri Texts
1.6 Johnstone’s Audio Material
1.7 This Grammar

2 Phonology
2.1 Mehri Consonants
2.2 Mehri Vowels
2.3 Word Stress

3 Pronouns
3.1 Independent Personal Pronouns
3.2 Suffixed Pronouns
3.3 Direct Object Pronouns (t-)
3.4 Demonstratives
3.5 Indefinite Pronouns
3.6 Reflexives
3.7 Reciprocals
3.8 Relative Pronouns

4 Nouns
4.1 Gender
4.2 Duals
4.3 Plurals
4.4 Definite Article
4.5 Diminutives
4.6 Construct State

5 Adjectives
5.1 Agreement
5.2 Declension
5.3 Substantivization
5.4 Comparatives
5.5 Quantifiers

6 Verbs: Stems
6.1 G-Stem
6.2 D/L-Stem
6.3 H-Stem
6.4 Š-Stems
6.5 T-Stems
6.6 Quadriliterals
6.7 Quinqueliterals (Qw- and Qy-Stems)

7 Verbs: Tenses and Forms
7.1 Verbal Tenses and Moods
7.2 Weak Verbs
7.3 The Irregular Verb ?om ‘want’

8 Prepositions
8.1 ar ‘except, but’
8.2 b- ‘in, at; with; for; on’
8.3 bad ‘after’
8.4 b?rk ‘in(to), inside; among’
8.5 ð?ar ‘on; about’, m?n ð?ar ‘after’
8.6 f?noh?n ‘before; in front of; ago’
8.7 gayr ‘except’, m?n gayr ‘without’
8.8 h- ‘to; for’
8.9 hal ‘at, by, beside’
8.10 (?l-)his ‘like, as’
8.11 k- (š-) ‘with’
8.12 l- ‘to; for’
8.13 m?n ‘from’
8.14 m?n ??de ‘about, regarding’
8.15 ?m-m?´n ‘between’
8.16 n?xali ‘under’
8.17 s?beb ‘because of’
8.18 sar ‘behind’
8.19 t? ‘until, up to’
8.20 t?woli ‘to, towards’
8.21 xa ‘like, as … as’
8.22 Additional Prepositions
8.23 The Suffixed Forms of Prepositions

9 Numerals
9.1 Cardinals
9.2 Special Forms Used With ‘Days’
9.3 Ordinals
9.4 Fractions
9.5 Days of the Week

10 Adverbs
10.1 Demonstrative Adverbs
10.2 Adverbs of Place
10.3 Adverbs of Time
10.4 Adverbs of Manner
10.5 Adverbs of Degree

11 Interrogatives
11.1 mon ‘who?’
11.2 h?¯s?n ‘what? why?’
11.3 h?¯s?n m?n ‘which? what kind of?’
11.4 ?õ ‘where?’
11.5 w?-koh (ko) ‘why?’
11.6 hiboh ‘how? what?’
11.7 mayt ‘when?’
11.8 k?m ‘how many? how much?’
11.9 ?l h?~ la ‘isn’t that so?’

12 Particles
12.1 Coordinating Conjunctions
12.2 Exclamations
12.3 Vocatives
12.4 Genitive Exponent ð- (‘of’)
12.5 Miscellaneous Particles

13 Some Syntactic Features
13.1 Copular (Non-Verbal) Sentences
13.2 Negation
13.3 Expressing ‘have’
13.4 Conditionals
13.5 Subordination
13.6 Interrogative Clauses

Texts

14 Johnstone’s Texts from Ali Musallam

Appendix A: Texts 54 and 65 with Morpheme Glossing
Appendix B: Texts 54 and 65 in Arabic Script
Appendix C: Supplement to Johnstone’s Mehri Lexicon
Appendix D: Additions and Corrections to The Jibbali Language of Oman: Grammar and Texts
Bibliography
Index of Passages
Index of Select Mehri Words

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron D. Rubin, Ph.D. (2004) Harvard University, is Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University. He has published widely on the Semitic languages, including numerous books and articles. His grammar of Jibbali appeared in 2014 (Brill).