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Subject(s)

• Mahri language—Grammar [Browse]
• Mahri language—Texts [Browse]
• Mahri language—Oman [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 93. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 93

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2018).

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.

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ISBN

90-04-36247-9

LCCN

2018003264

OCLC

1021058262

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004362475

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