Papers by Janet C E Watson
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 21, 2011
Karin C. Ryding, Georgetown (USA) 50. Arabic Dialects (general article) 1. Introduction 2. Geogra... more Karin C. Ryding, Georgetown (USA) 50. Arabic Dialects (general article) 1. Introduction 2. Geographical areas 3. Documentation of Arabic dialects 4. Comparative studies of linguistic issues 5. Introductions to modern Arabic dialects 6. Arabic before the spread of Islam 7. The relationship between ancient Arabic and modern Arabic dialects 8. Features of modern Arabic dialects as universal tendencies 9. Features of modern Arabic dialects as grammaticalisation 10. Evidence for a polygenetic explanation 11. The classification of Arabic dialects 12 The linguistic typology of Arabic dialects 13. Conclusion 14. References
Arabic in the City
Introduction 1. Arabic Urban Vernaculars: Development and Changes Catherine Miller Part 1: Migrat... more Introduction 1. Arabic Urban Vernaculars: Development and Changes Catherine Miller Part 1: Migration, Urbanization and Language Change 2. The (r)urbanisation of Mauritania: Historical Context and Contemporary Developments Catherine Taine Cheikh 3. The Formation of the Dialect of Amman: from Chaos to Order Enam Al-Wer 4. Urbanization and Dialect Change: the Arabic Dialect of Tripoli (Libya) Christophe Pereira 5. Becoming Casablancan: Fessis in Casablanca as a Case Study Atiqa Hachimi 6. Two Cases of Moroccan Arabic in the Diaspora Angeles Vicente Part 2: Urban Vernaculars: Convergence and Divergence 7. Greetings in Beirut : Social Distribution and Attitudes towards Different Formulae Marie Aymee Germanos 8. Linguistic Levelling in Sanf ani Arabic as Reflected in a Popular Radio Serial Janet Watson 9. The Urban and Suburban Modes: Patterns of Linguistic Variation and Change in Damascus Hanadi Ismail 10. Segmental and Prosodic Aspects of Ksar el Kebir's Neo-Urban Variety Mohamed Embarki 11. The Use of Kashkasha/kaskasa and Alternative Means among Educated Urban Saudi Speakers MuniraAl-Azraki Part 3: Multilibualism, Codeswitching and New Urban Cultures 12. Close Encounters of a Different Kind: Two Types of Insertion in Nigerian Arabic Codeswitching Jonathan Owens 13. Development and Linguistic Change in Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching Karima Ziamari 14. The Language of Cairo's Young University Students Sherin Rizk 15. Rap and Rappers in Nouakchott. (Mauritania) Aline Tauzin 16. Uses and Attitudes towards Hassaniyya Language among Nouakchott's Negro-Mauritanian Population Alassane Dia
Language, Gesture and Ecology in Modern South Arabian Languages
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2022
A. Reviews: general
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1992
AN EARLY ISLAMIC FAMILY FROM OMAN: AL‐&am... more AN EARLY ISLAMIC FAMILY FROM OMAN: AL‐'AWTABI'S ACCOUNT OF THE MUHALLABIDS. By MARTIN HINDS. (Journal of Semitic Studies Monographs, 17.) Manchester, University of Manchester, 1991. vi, 97pp. £25.00.THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN ECONOMIC DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: MERCANTILISM AND THE ISLAMIC ECONOMY IN ALEPPO, 1600–1750. By BRUCE MASTERS. (New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilisation, 12.) New York and
Syllable Structure And Syllabification
Oxford University Press eBooks, Apr 10, 2002
The Phoneme System Of Arabic
Oxford University Press eBooks, Apr 10, 2002
Carlos Landberg Annual lecture
Abdullah al-Mahri and Saeed al-Qumairi to attend Documentary Linguistics course in Berlin
Fall School on Documentary Linguistics in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) Endanger... more Fall School on Documentary Linguistics in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, SOAS University of London & Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin Berlin, October 10-17, 2018
Jemenitisches Worterbuch: Arabisch-Deutsch-Englisch by Jeffrey Deboo
Bulletin - British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
Camel Culture and Camel Terminology Among the Omani Bedouin
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2013
Two texts from jabal razih, North-west Yemen
Current issues in the …, 2006
... Two Texts from Jabal Razih, North-west Yemen 49 Ahmad calling Salih&a... more ... Two Texts from Jabal Razih, North-west Yemen 49 Ahmad calling Salih', or in a noun phrase followed (less commonly preceded) by a definite noun, as in ... in Sabaic, including sa/si'to, until'which may precede either a noun or a verb, bu'in', atar'after', ger'other than'and cale'on'(cf. ...
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T.M. Johnstone’s Modern South Arabian recordings: British Library blog and podcast
The Arabic definite article
Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized, 2015
South Arabian and Arabic dialects
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
This chapter examines phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic data from a number of c... more This chapter examines phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic data from a number of contemporary Arabic varieties spoken within historical Yemen—i.e. within the borders of current Yemen and up into southern ˁAsīr in Saudi Arabia—with (a) data from the Ancient South Arabian language, Sabaic; (b) what has been called ‘Ḥimyaritic’, as spoken during the early centuries of Islam; and (c) the Modern South Arabian languages, Mehri and Śḥerɛ̄t. These comparisons show a significant number of shared features. The density of shared features and the nature of sharing exhibited lead to the tentative suggestion that some of these varieties may be continuations of South Arabian with an Arabic overlay rather than Arabic with a South Arabian substratum.
Ein Märchen im arabischen Dialekt von Ibb
Zeitschrift Fur Arabische Linguistik, 2007
51. Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula
The Semitic Languages, 2011
ZYGMUNT FRAJZYNGIER and ERIN SHAY (eds), Interaction of Morphology and Syntax: Case Studies in Afroasiatic (Typological Studies in Language 75)
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2011
Review: Sentential Object Complements in Modern Standard Arabic
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2004
Robert Hetzron (ed.), The Semitic languages. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xx+572
Journal of Linguistics, 2000
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Papers by Janet C E Watson
The historical contexts for our collection are the 1962 Yemeni Revolution, with Liebhaber and Atiq’s chapter on al-Zubayri, the Arab Spring of 2011 and its aftermath, when Yemen collapsed into civil war, stoked by external forces, and traditional and contemporary local conflicts involving Ibb and Hadramawt.
This book emerges from the project Yemen in Conflict: Popular culture as the expression and resolution of conflict, funded by the British Academy and led by Professor Deryn Rees-Jones. Our partners for the project were the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF), Yemeni communities in the UK, Fatima Alzawiya, Amina Atiq, Sam Liebhaber, Catherine Miller and Mohammed Shormani. The principle aim of the project was to collect and examine Yemeni poetry from different times and spaces around the notion of conflict and conflict resolution. The notion of love emerged from the poets themselves and their poetry, from the realisation that much of the poetry we include was produced in a spirit of love. Poetry addressing conflict in Yemen was collected online and in the diaspora. Many of these poems have been made available by Roberta Morano on SoundCloud in the original Arabic with English translations, descriptions and metadata. A significant part of the project involved in-person poetry workshops with members of the Yemeni community in Liverpool, Cardiff, Birmingham and Sheffield, and, during the Covid-19 period, online poetry events with participants from the UK and Yemen. The workshops are described in more detail by Taher Qassim in chapter five.