Omani Mehri : : a new grammar with texts / / by Aaron D. Rubin.

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, pres...

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Superior document:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 93
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 93.
Physical Description:1 online resource (898 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of 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.