An Annotated Corpus of Three Hundred Proverbs, Sayings, and Idioms in Eastern Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t - cover image

Book Series

Copyright

Giuliano Castagna

Published On

2024-08-14

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-384-3
Hardback978-1-80511-385-0
PDF978-1-80511-386-7

Language

  • English

Print Length

256 pages (viii+248)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 14 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.55" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 16 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.63" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback365g (12.88oz)
Hardback541g (19.08oz)

OCLC Number

1452474735

THEMA

  • 2CSR
  • CFB
  • GBCQ
  • NHG

BISAC

  • FOR002000
  • LAN009050
  • SOC011000
  • LCO012000

Keywords

  • Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t
  • Endangered language
  • Proverbs and idioms
  • Grammatical analysis
  • Semitic language
  • Sultanate of Oman

An Annotated Corpus of Three Hundred Proverbs, Sayings, and Idioms in Eastern Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t

This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern South Arabian sub-branch of Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.

Reflecting the historical value of proverbs and idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t proverbs, sayings and idioms from Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of lexicon, phonetics, phonology and morphology.

Castagna’s grammatical analysis (phonetic, phonological and morphological) of these pieces of folk knowledge underpins the documentation of an obsolete lexicon. It is accompanied by a brief introduction to the study of proverbs (paremiology) and a succinct grammatical sketch of Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t, making the book useful both to experts and to students of these topics.

Contents

Introduction

(pp. 1–48)
  • Giuliano Castagna

Proverbs and Linguistic Analysis

(pp. 49–214)
  • Giuliano Castagna

Conclusions

(pp. 215–230)
  • Giuliano Castagna

Contributors

Giuliano Castagna

(author)
Associate Research Fellow at Beijing Normal University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7421-5827

Giuliano Castagna is an Associate Research Fellow at the Research Centre for History and Cultures (RCHC) of Beijing Normal University (BNU) at Zhuhai, mainland China. After obtaining a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Leeds, he held as an Assistant Research position at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Castagna’s research focuses on the documentation of some aspects of the Modern South Arabian branch of the Semitic languages. In particular, he is interested in the obsolescent morphological categories of the Jibbali/ Śḥərɛ́t language such as quadri- and quinqueliteral nominals and verbs, native (i.e. non-Arabic) onomastics and paremiology, and the seemingly non-Semitic lexical items in Modern South Arabian, as well as the role and degree of involvement of pre-documentary Modern South Arabian-speaking people in the old Indian Ocean trade network.

Suhail al-Amri

(contributions by)