A descriptive linguistic study of the spoken Arabic of Wadi Hadramawt, Yemen

Inhaltsverzeichnis (Table of Contents)

• ABSTRACT
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• LIST OF TRANSLITERATION SYMBOLS
• LIST OF TABLES
• MAP OF YEMEN
• MAP OF HADRAMAWT
• MAP OF WĀDĪ HADRAMAWT
• LINGUISTIC MAP OF THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF ARABIA
• INTRODUCTION
  • 0.1 Preliminary
  • 0.2 Area under investigation
  • 0.3 Defining the dialect
  • 0.4 The present linguistic situation
  • 0.5 Previous Studies
  • 0.6 The Present Study
  • Notes
• CHAPTER 1: PHONOLOGY
  • 1.0 Preliminary: The Sounds of HA
  • 1.0.1 Consonants
  • 1.0.2 Vowels
    • 1.0.2.1 Monophthongs
    • 1.0.2.2 HA vowel diphthongs
  • 1.0.3 The transcription of final long vowels and consonants
  • 1.1 Consonants in detail
    • 1.1.1 Stops
      • 1.1.1.1 The voiced bilabial stop b
      • 1.1.1.2 The voiceless lamino-alveolar stop t
      • 1.1.1.3 The voiceless lamino-alveolar emphatic plosive t
      • 1.1.1.4 The voiced apico-alveolar stop d
      • 1.1.1.5 The voiced palatal stop/affricate j
      • 1.1.1.6 The voiceless velar stop k
      • 1.1.1.7 The voiced velar stop g
      • 1.1.1.8 The glottal stop
    • 1.1.2 Fricatives
      • 1.1.2.1 The voiceless labiodental fricative f
      • 1.1.2.2 The voiceless interdental fricative t
      • 1.1.2.3 The voiced inter-dental fricative d
      • 1.1.2.4 The voiced interdental emphatic fricative d
      • 1.1.2.5 The voiceless alveolar fricative s
      • 1.1.2.6 The voiceless alveolar emphatic fricative s
      • 1.1.2.7 The voiced alveolar fricative z
      • 1.1.2.8 The voiceless palato-alveolar fricative š
      • 1.1.2.9 The voiceless uvular fricative k
      • 1.1.2.10 The voiced uvular fricative g
      • 1.1.2.11 The voiceless pharyngeal fricative ḥ
      • 1.1.2.12 The voiced pharyngeal fricative
      • 1.1.2.13 The voiceless glottal fricative h
    • 1.1.3 Nasals
      • 1.1.3.1 The voiced bilabial nasal m
      • 1.1.3.2 The voiced alveolar nasal n
    • 1.1.4 The trill r
    • 1.1.5 The laterals
      • 1.1.5.1 The voiced alveolar lateral /
      • 1.1.5.2 Voiced alveolar emphatic lateral /
    • 1.1.6 Approximants
      • 1.1.6.1 The voiced palatal approximant y
      • 1.1.6.2 The voiced labiovelar approximant w
  • 1.2 Vowels
    • 1.2.1 Short vowels
      • 1.2.1.1 i
      • 1.2.1.2 a
      • 1.2.1.3 u
• CHAPTER 2: MORPHOLOGY
• CHAPTER 3: SYNTAX
• CHAPTER 4: VOCABULARY
• CHAPTER 5: TRANSCRIPTS

Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte (Objectives and Key Themes)

This thesis presents a descriptive linguistic study of the spoken Arabic of Wādī Haḍramawt, Yemen. It aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the Ḥaḍramī Arabic dialect (HA). The study aims to contribute to the understanding of the linguistic diversity of Arabic and its regional variations.

• The phonological features of Ḥaḍramī Arabic
• The morphological patterns and processes of the dialect
• The syntactic structures and sentence types found in HA
• The lexical items and loanwords present in the dialect
• The sociolinguistic distribution of certain sounds in HA

Zusammenfassung der Kapitel (Chapter Summaries)

Chapter One focuses on the segmental phonology of Ḥaḍramī Arabic, analyzing the phonemic inventory and allophonic variations. It explores the sociolinguistic distribution of specific sounds unique to HA, like the reflexes of , , <ḍ> and <ḍ>, as well as the prosody of the dialect.

Chapter Two delves into the morphology of the dialect, covering verbal morphology, including transitive and intransitive verbs, and nominal morphology, including nouns derived from verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and numbers. It also examines the main inflectional morphophonological processes.

Chapter Three explores the syntax of the dialect, analyzing sentence types, including nominal sentences, verbal sentences, and complex sentences. It discusses particles peculiar to HA and compares them with their cognates in other dialects. The chapter also covers the passive, negation, and co-reference in discourse.

Schlüsselwörter (Keywords)

Ḥaḍramī Arabic, Arabic dialects, phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, Yemen, Wādī Haḍramawt, sociolinguistics, language variation, linguistic diversity, descriptive linguistics.