Linking East Arabia
Contenu
- Titre
- Linking East Arabia
- Résumé
- This paper presents further linguistic examination of the historical link that connects the populations in eastern Arabia. It builds on the discussion previously presented by Holes (e.g., 2006, 2011c, 2012, 2016). Holes (2012: 240-41) listed several shared features between the Baḥārna village variety of Bahraini Arabic and northern Omani Arabic reflecting a broken ‘sedentary’ dialect chain extending from the Gulf shores to the coast of Oman and then southeastern Yemen. This paper explores some of these features further and unveils a few more, Sedentary (S) and Bedouin (B) in type, that could be used to further complete the missing pieces of this link, namely, the null definite article in syntactically definite nouns and NPs (in a Bedouin variety spoken along the Bāṭina coast), the use of TH-fronting, and the occurrence of [-ə] as the question particle in S-type varieties in the hinterland (in Ibri and Samail for the former and Nizwa for the latter). These features have been reported for different Bahraini Arabic varieties (Holes, 2016: 215-13, 2011b: 485, 2011a: 242, 245, 2012: 241 respectively).
- Type
- paper
- Date
- 2026-06-23
- présenté lors de
- 16th International Conference of AIDA
- Couverture spatiale
- Catania
- Langue
- eng
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