The Arabic of Bukhara
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Kerith Miller
Abstract
The Arabic spoken in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan displays an unusual degree of integration between three distinct language families: Semitic, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic. This paper proposes an analysis of Bukhara Arabic based upon data collected between 1935 and 1943. The analysis involves classification of the verbal system drawing on the principal parts theory of Finkel and Stump (2007a), the purpose of which is to determine the essential parts needed to predict the remaining forms in a lexeme’s paradigm. The analysis includes an examination of the productivity of the verbal nonconcatenative derivative systems to reveal the changes involved in the partial adoption of concatenative systems. The results shed further light on the morphological processes of Semitic languages under strong contact conditions with other language families.
Abstract
The Arabic spoken in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan displays an unusual degree of integration between three distinct language families: Semitic, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic. This paper proposes an analysis of Bukhara Arabic based upon data collected between 1935 and 1943. The analysis involves classification of the verbal system drawing on the principal parts theory of Finkel and Stump (2007a), the purpose of which is to determine the essential parts needed to predict the remaining forms in a lexeme’s paradigm. The analysis includes an examination of the productivity of the verbal nonconcatenative derivative systems to reveal the changes involved in the partial adoption of concatenative systems. The results shed further light on the morphological processes of Semitic languages under strong contact conditions with other language families.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- The development of future participles and future tense markers from motion predicates 9
- Yod-dropping in b-imperfect verb forms in Amman 29
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Syntax
- Prosodic constituency and locality in Levantine Arabic 47
- Negation and the subject position in San’ani Arabic 75
- Splitting Neg: 91
- Multiple agreement in Arabic 121
- Cyclic AGREE derives restrictions on cliticization in classical Arabic 135
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Phonology
- Secondary stress exist in Cairene Arabic? 163
- Paradoxical paradigms! Evidence from Lebanese Arabic phonology 185
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Sociolinguistics
- The Arabic of Bukhara 213
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Semantic/Pragmatics
- Terms of endearment and anger in Levantine Arabic 243
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Language acquisition
- On the L1 development of final consonant clusters in Cairene Arabic 263
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Neurolinguistics
- Neurocognitive modeling of the two language varieties in Arabic Diglossia 285
- Index 303
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- The development of future participles and future tense markers from motion predicates 9
- Yod-dropping in b-imperfect verb forms in Amman 29
-
Syntax
- Prosodic constituency and locality in Levantine Arabic 47
- Negation and the subject position in San’ani Arabic 75
- Splitting Neg: 91
- Multiple agreement in Arabic 121
- Cyclic AGREE derives restrictions on cliticization in classical Arabic 135
-
Phonology
- Secondary stress exist in Cairene Arabic? 163
- Paradoxical paradigms! Evidence from Lebanese Arabic phonology 185
-
Sociolinguistics
- The Arabic of Bukhara 213
-
Semantic/Pragmatics
- Terms of endearment and anger in Levantine Arabic 243
-
Language acquisition
- On the L1 development of final consonant clusters in Cairene Arabic 263
-
Neurolinguistics
- Neurocognitive modeling of the two language varieties in Arabic Diglossia 285
- Index 303
