Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 248 pages)
ISBN:
9781805113867
Series Statement:
Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures vol. 26
Content:
This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern South Arabian sub-branch of Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman. Reflecting the historical value of proverbs and idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t proverbs, sayings and idioms from Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of lexicon, phonetics, phonology and morphology. Castagna's grammatical analysis (phonetic, phonological and morphological) of these pieces of folk knowledge underpins the documentation of an obsolete lexicon. It is accompanied by a brief introduction to the study of proverbs (paremiology) and a succinct grammatical sketch of Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t, making the book useful both to experts and to students of these topics."--Publisher's website
Note:
At foot of cover: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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At head of front cover: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures
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Available through Open Book Publishers
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Includes bibliography (pages 231-240) and index
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Introduction / Giuliano Castagna -- Proverbs and Linguistic Analysis / Giuliano Castagna -- Conclusions / Giuliano Castagna.
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Chiefly English ; some Jibbali text in Arabic script with transliterated examples
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781805113843
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781805113850
Language:
English
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