Najdi Arabic: Central Arabian

✍ Scribed by Ingham, Bruce

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Series: London Oriental and African Language Library
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

NAJDI ARABIC......Page 1
Editorial page
......Page 2
Title page
......Page 3
Copyright page
......Page 4
Dedication
......Page 5
Table of contents
......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements
......Page 13
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
Najd and Surrounding Areas......Page 17
1. Najd and the Najdi dialects......Page 19
Archaic nature of the dialects......Page 23
Definition of the corpus......Page 25
Neighbouring dialects to those of Najd......Page 26
Sources on the Najdi dialects......Page 27
Apologia......Page 29
Inventory......Page 31
The Function and distribution of vowels within the word......Page 34
3. Morphology......Page 39
Verbal Morphology......Page 40
The Internal passive......Page 44
Stem vowel incidence......Page 46
Object Pronoun suffixes......Page 48
Nominal morphology......Page 49
4. Sentence structure......Page 53
1 Uninodal......Page 57
2. Binodal (Topic-Comment structure)......Page 60
Negation......Page 62
5. The noun phrase structure......Page 65
Apposition......Page 68
The construct......Page 71
Particles and bound elements involved in the NP......Page 73
The transposed NP structure......Page 77
Attributive constructs......Page 78
6. Number and gender......Page 79
Concord......Page 80
7. The verb transitivity system......Page 87
Morphology......Page 90
Interrelātionship of the Aktionsart and Measure systems......Page 91
Reciprocity......Page 99
Repetitive and gradual actions......Page 101
Physical and mental āttitude verbs......Page 102
Judgemental verbs......Page 103
Petal verbs......Page 104
8.Tense, aspectand aktionsart......Page 105
Aktionsartdivisions of verbs......Page 107
The Tense/aspect system......Page 112
Time reference of the verbal forms......Page 114
Uses of the particle ğid/gid......Page 122
Relātive time preverbal markers......Page 125
The hāl clause......Page 127
9. Modality in the sentence......Page 135
The Modal elements......Page 137
10. Time and condition structures......Page 149
I Conditional clauses......Page 152
II Time clauses......Page 160
Conclusions......Page 165
1. Abu Mahmūd and his family at the funfair......Page 167
2. Abu Hājūs's business vēnture......Page 179
General lexicon......Page 191
Expressions involving the name of God allah......Page 204
Unusual expressions heard among the Dhafīr......Page 205
Greetings heard among the Āl Murrah......Page 207
Words connected with travelling......Page 208
Common idiomatic expressions......Page 209
Appendix 2. Local dialect differences......Page 211
Footnotes......Page 215
References......Page 225
Index......Page 231

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Арабский язык;Аравийские диалекты;