Grammar of Khuzestani Arabic : : A Spoken Variety of South-West Iran / / Bettina Leitner.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 108
• VerfasserIn: Leitner, Bettina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 108.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (413 pages)
• Notes: This book is the first comprehensive description of the Arabic variety spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. It contains a detailed description of its grammar based on fieldwork data with numerous examples and a collection of authentic texts.

This book is the very first comprehensive description of the Arabic variety spoken in the South-Western Iranian province of Khuzestan. It contains a detailed description of its phonology and morphology with numerous examples and a collection of authentic texts presented in transcription with an Engl...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Tables, Maps and Figures
• Abbreviations
• Part 1 Introduction and General Classification of Khuzestani Arabic
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Area
• 1.2 History of Arabs and Arab Tribes in Khuzestan
• 1.3 Current Situation of the Arabs and of Arabic in Iran
• 1.4 Khuzestani Arabic and Cognate gələt- Type Arabic Dialects
• 1.5 Data, Methodology, Organization
• 2 General Classification and Internal Subdivisions of Khuzestani Arabic (KhA)
• 2.1 Classification of KhA—The Position of KhA among the Mesopotamian Arabic Dialects
• 2.2 Internal Subdivisions of KhA
• 2.3 Conclusion
• 2.4 Illustrations
• Part 2 Grammar
• 3 Phonology
• 3.1 Consonants
• 3.2 Vowels
• 3.3 Diphthongs
• 3.4 Emphasis
• 3.5 Syllable Structure
• 3.6 Stress
• 3.7 Phonotactics
• 4 Morphology
• 4.1 Pronouns
• 4.2 Quantifiers
• 4.3 Adverbs
• 4.4 Prepositions
• 4.5 Paradigms of Prepositions with Pronominal Suffixes
• 4.6 māl Constructions and the Analytic Genitive
• 4.7 Conjunctions
• 4.8 Particles
• 4.9 Nouns
• 4.10 Numerals
• 4.11 Verbal Morphology
• 5 Texts
• 5.1 Ahvaz, Abu Khazʕal [A1]
• 5.2 Umm Saʕad [A10]
• 5.3 ʕArab (ʕazīb) [A12], Semi-Nomads
• References
• Index.