| Omani Mehri: A New Grammar with Texts Approx. XXVI, 8 Edition Contributor(s): Rubin, Aaron D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004357351 ISBN-13: 9789004357358 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $213.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Etymology - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation |
| Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 2.2" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (3.60 lbs) 900 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |