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Author Blanc, Haim

Title Communal Dialects in Baghdad
Published Boston : BRILL, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (232 p.)
Series Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Series ; v.111
Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Series
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Haim Blanc-a Biographical Sketch -- Editorial Preamble (Borg) -- Foreword -- Map: The Mesopotamian Dialect Area -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Aim and Scope -- 1.2. Sources -- 1.2.1. Baghdad -- 1.2.2. Other Dialects -- 1.3. The Mesopotamian Dialect Area -- 1.3.1. Overall View. The qeltu/gelet Split -- 1.3.2. Main Contrastive Features of the qeltu-gelet Split -- 1.4. The Baghdad Situation -- 1.4.1. Majority and Minorities: Some Figures -- 1.4.2. Correlation between Community and Dialect -- 1.4.3. Degree of Uniformity within Each Dialect
1.4.4. Communal Dialects in the Rest of Iraq -- 1.4.5. Affinities with Other Dialects -- Chapter 2. Communal Dialects in the Arab World -- 2.1. Social Dialects -- 2.1.1. Socio-economic Groupings -- 2.1.2. Religious Groupings -- 2.2. Communal Differentiation in Arabic -- 2.2.1. Overall View -- 2.2.2. Minor Differentiation -- 2.2.3. Intermediate Differentiation -- 2.2.4. Major Differentiation -- Chapter 3. Phonology -- 3.1. Procedure and Notation -- 3.2. Consonants -- 3.2.1. Overall View -- 3.2.2. Reflexes of the OA Interdentals -- 3.2.3. Reflexes of OA /l/
3.2.4. Reflexes of OA /r/ -- 3.2.5. Reflexes of OA /k/ -- 3.2.6. Reflexes of OA /q/ -- 3.3. Vowels -- 3.3.1. Overall View -- 3.3.2. Reflexes of OA /i/ and /u/ -- 3.3.3. Reflexes of OA /a/ -- 3.3.4. Reflexes of OA /ī/ and /ū/ -- 3.3.5. Reflexes of OA Final /āʼ/ -- 3.3.6. The ʼimāla -- 3.3.7. Reflexes of OA /ay/ and /aw/ -- 3.4. Stress -- 3.5. Consonant Clusters and Anaptyxis87 -- 3.5.1. Overall View -- 3.5.2. Final Clusters -- Chapter 4. Morphology -- 4.1. Procedure and Notation -- 4.1.1. Basic Morphophonemics -- 4.1.2. Overall View -- 4.2. The Pronoun
4.2.1. Subject Pronouns -- 4.2.2. Object Pronouns -- 4.2.3. Indirect and Double Object Pronouns -- 4.3. The Feminine Suffix -- 4.3.1. Overall View -- 4.3.2. Allomorphs in the Isolated Noun -- 4.3.3. Allomorphs in Sandhi -- 4.3.4. Unit Nouns -- 4.4. Some Other Suffixes -- 4.4.1. The Sound Plural Suffixes -- 4.4.2. Relational and Agent Suffixes -- 4.4.3. Hypocoristic Suffixes -- 4.5. The Noun -- 4.5.1. Overall View -- 4.5.2. Irregular Patterns -- 4.5.3. Regular Patterns -- 4.6. The Numerals -- 4.6.1. The Cardinal Numbers -- 4.6.2. The Ordinals -- 4.7. The Participle
4.7.1. Form I Participles -- 4.7.2. Participles of Forms ii and III -- 4.7.3. Other Participles -- 4.8. The Verb -- 4.8.1. Overall View -- 4.8.2. Form i -- 4.8.3. Forms ii, III, v, and vi, and Quadriconsonantal Verbs -- 4.8.4. Form iv -- 4.8.5. Form vii -- 4.8.6. Form viii -- 4.8.7. Form ix -- 4.8.8. Form x -- 4.8.9. Verb Modifiers -- 4.9. Other Morpheme Classes -- 4.9.1. Determination Markers -- 4.9.2. The Relative l' -- 4.9.3. Reflexes of OA /li/ and /ʼila/ -- 4.9.4. Some Prepositions -- Chapter 5. Some Syntactic Features -- 5.1. Introductory
Summary A revised reprint of the classic study of the communal Arabic dialects of Baghdad (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish)
Notes Description based upon print version of record
5.2. The Postpositional Copula
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Blanc, David
Borg, Alexander
ISBN 9789004689886
9004689885