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Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction 1 Syntax 2 Morphology 3 Phonology 4 Ideophones and Interjections 5 Lexicon
Biography
Clive Holes is Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity Hall.
`The author has. . .collected a wealth of data over a very wide range of sentence types and usages. . .It is a useful reference book for anyone interested in Arabic syntax and good handbook for anyone wishing to familiarize himself with the Gulf koine dialect, being a great improvement in terms of accuracy, methodology and reliability of data on handbooks previously available'. - Bruce Ingham, BSOAS Liv 2, 1991
