Retention of the passive verb in a Bedouin dialect of northern Oman

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Titre

Retention of the passive verb in a Bedouin dialect of northern Oman

Créateur

Eades, Domenyk Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2009

Dans

Zeitschrift Für Arabische Linguistik Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

The present contribution examines the form and function of the apophonic ("internal") passive (AP) in an Arabic dialect of northern Oman. The AP is one of several features common to all the dialects of Oman, having been retained in dialects of both the "Bedouin" (B) and "sedentary" (S) types. In a study of the AP in dialects of Oman and eastern Arabia, Clive Holes (1998) showed that this category survives as a functioning marker of the passive voice in Omani S dialects mostly in the historically isolated interior of the country, albeit in verbs belonging to a restricted set of syntactic and lexicosemantic categories. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether the same process of recession has taken place in a B dialect of the Omani interior. Results of the study reveal that in the B dialect of the Hidyīwī tribe, whose dīra is located in the hinterland of Muḍaybi in northern Oman, the AP is significantly more productive than in the S dialects described by Holes. This contrast corresponds with certain socio-historical factors which distinguish the different speech communities of the interior. In particular, the Hidyīwī community is significantly more isolated from outsider contact and maintains a more homogeneous, tight-knit social structure than towns in which the S dialects are spoken.

Langue

eng

numéro

51

pages

5-21

issn

0170-026X

uri

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43525855

Eades, Domenyk, “Retention of the passive verb in a Bedouin dialect of northern Oman”, 2009, bibliographie, consulté le 8 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/10890