ABSTRACT
First published in 1982. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. First: Arabic linguistics is developing into an increasingly interesting and important subject within the broad field of modern linguistic studies. Second: Arabic linguistics is reaching a mature stage in its development benefiting from both the early Arabic linguistic scholarship and modern techniques of general linguistics and related disciplines. Third: The scope of this discipline is wide and varied, covering diverse areas such as Arabic phonetics, phonology and grammar, Arabic psycholinguistics, Arabic dialectology, Arabic lexicography and lexicology, Arabic sociolinguistics, teaching and learning of Arabic as a first, second, or foreign language, communications, semiotics, terminology, translation, machine translation, Arabic computational linguistics, history of Arabic linguistics, etc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Lieutenant Colonel F.B. Longe, Surveyor General of India, Seasons 1904-1905 is ap pended. Tape Recordings and Transcriptions The basic material was recorded on tapes, which were then transcribed phonetically on paper. The symbols used for transcriptions were imainly such as those employed by Orientalists. All the tapes were transcribed regardless of the material they contained. Material such as pertaining to folk-lore was only used for whatever relevance it had to this work. The terminology employed for linguistic analysis, corresponds throughout to that normally used by linguists interested in Arabic dialect studies. Arrangement of the Material The material is divided into six parts. Part I (Section A) treats of the pre-lslamic tribes of Bahrain, their descendants in the area, and to some extent, traces the origins of the contemporary Arab population of Bahrain. This was necessitated mainly by the inadequacy of the ethnological data, particularly in respect of the origins of the Bahārnah of Bahrain, prevailing in the literature on the area. In addition, a historical survey of Bahrain is provided in Section B of the same part. Part II is devoted to the phonology of the Bahārnah dialect. Characteristic phono logical features and dialectal peculiarities are discussed in this part. Inter-dialectal com parisons, where considered necessary because of regional variations etc. are made; and to some degree the Bahārnah forms which diverge from their Anazi counterforms are also considered. Definitions of local terms and occasional diachronic remarks on certain fea tures are made. At the start of each part, a brief account of the findings and the topics discussed is given. In Part III of the study the morphology of B is examined. Here, again, a descriptive
part |1 pages
Part 1 Section (A) The ancient region of Al-Bahrain
part |2 pages
PART I: SECTION (B)
chapter |11 pages
empire for the next three centuries. The chief tribes of pre-lslamic Bahrain wereAbd al-Qais, Tamīm, and Bakr ibn Wā?il. Al-Mundhir ibn Sāwa ibn Zayd Manāt ibn Tamīm
part |2 pages
Part II The phonology of the Bahārnah dialect
chapter |3 pages
m.s. yiġsil (he washes) yihlam (he dreams) yihfur (he digs)
chapter |7 pages
kill ?arba saa aat, ?ibla habbe
part |1 pages
Appendices
