Gulf Arabic
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Active Participle
Adverbial Clauses
Al Qadim
Arabic dialectology
Arabic linguist
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Bilad Al Qadim
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Enclitic Pronoun
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Feminine Plural
Form Ii
Free Pronouns
Intransitive Verbs
language variation Middle East
Main Clause
Min 9ala
Modern Standard Arabic
Noun Clause
Noun Phrases
pan-Gulf Arabic dialect research
pan-Gulf dialect
Passive Participles
Pronominal Enclitic
Resumptive Pronoun
seafaring linguistic traditions
seafaring traditions
sociolinguistics Arabia
Structured Semantic Fields
syntax morphology phonology
tribal language structures
Triconsonantal Root
Verbal Noun
Vowel Deletion
Vowel Insertion
Word Medial Consonant Clusters
Product details
- ISBN 9780415513166
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Gulf Arabic is the term used to refer to a number of related dialects which are spoken along the Gulf littoral from northern Kuwait to Oman. The people who live in this area are linked to each other by trading and seafaring traditions which go back many centuries, as well as by the complex tribal structure of Arabia. With the development of education since the second world war, and increasingly close social, political and developmental ties between Gulf states, a form of dialectal Arabic has evolved which is not closely associated with any one particular state, and which exhibits features common to them all. This is still unmistakably `Gulf' in its basic pronunciation and morphology, as well as in its basic lexical stock, but its syntax and to some extent lexicon have been influenced by standard Arabic and other Arabic dialects. Clive Holes provides a description of this educated, pan-Gulf dialect.
Clive Holes is Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity Hall.
