Dialect, culture, and society in Eastern Arabia. Volume III, Phonology, morphology, syntax, style / by Clive Holes.

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Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid 1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. The present Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style , is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest. Volume I: Glossary , published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume II: Ethnographic Texts , published in 2005, presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays, covering major aspects of the pre-oil culture of the Gulf and the initial stages of the transition to the modern era: pearl diving, agriculture, communal relations, marriage, childhood, domestic life, work. Excerpts from local dialect poems concerned with these subjects are also included.

Preliminary Material -- 1 Communities, Histories, and Dialects in Bahrain and the Wider Gulf -- 2 Phonology -- 3 Morphology (I) -- 4 Morphology (II) -- 5 Syntax -- 6 Style in Spoken Discourse -- 7 Some Trends in Dialectal Change Since the Mid-1970s -- Further addenda and corrigenda to Volume 1.

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