| A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai Contributor(s): de Jong, Rudolf (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004201017 ISBN-13: 9789004201019 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $244.15 Product Type: Hardcover Language: Arabic Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Arabic - Reference - Religion | Islam - General |
| Dewey: 492.770 |
| LCCN: 2011006129 |
| Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East |
| Physical Information: 460 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After publishing A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill:2000), Rudolf de Jong completes his description of the Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Desert of Egypt by adding the present volume. To facilitate direct comparison of all Sinai dialects, the dialect descriptions in both volumes run parallel and are thus structured in the same manner. Quoting from his own extensive material and using a total of 95 criteria for comparison, De Jong applies the method of 'multi-dimensional scaling' and his own 'step-method' to arrive at a subdivision into eight (of which seven are 'Bedouin') typological groups in Sinai. An appendix with 68 maps and dialectrometrical plots completes the picture. |