Omani Mehri

Aaron D. Rubin, Ph.D. (2004) Harvard University, is Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University. He has published widely on the Semitic languages, including numerous books and articles. His grammar of Jibbali appeared in 2014 (Brill).

"To conclude, this book is undoubtedly a very important work for MSAL and Semitic studies as a whole."- Fabio Gasparini, Orientalische Literaturzeitung, Vol. 114, Iss. 6, 2019, pp. 463-466

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of TextsAbbreviations and SymbolsText CitationA Note on Transcription and TranslationGrammar1 Introduction1.1 Previous Scholarship on Mehri and MSA1.2 Dialects of Mehri1.3 The Position of Mehri within MSA1.4 The Position of MSA in Semitic1.5 Johnstone’s Mehri Texts1.6 Johnstone’s Audio Material1.7 This Grammar2 Phonology2.1 Mehri Consonants2.2 Mehri Vowels2.3 Word Stress3 Pronouns3.1 Independent Personal Pronouns3.2 Suffixed Pronouns3.3 Direct Object Pronouns (t-)3.4 Demonstratives3.5 Indefinite Pronouns3.6 Reflexives3.7 Reciprocals3.8 Relative Pronouns4 Nouns4.1 Gender4.2 Duals4.3 Plurals4.4 Definite Article4.5 Diminutives4.6 Construct State5 Adjectives5.1 Agreement5.2 Declension5.3 Substantivization5.4 Comparatives5.5 Quantifiers6 Verbs: Stems6.1 G-Stem6.2 D/L-Stem6.3 H-Stem6.4 Š-Stems6.5 T-Stems6.6 Quadriliterals6.7 Quinqueliterals (Qw- and Qy-Stems)7 Verbs: Tenses and Forms7.1 Verbal Tenses and Moods7.2 Weak Verbs7.3 The Irregular Verb ḥōm ‘want’8 Prepositions8.1 ar ‘except, but’8.2 b- ‘in, at; with; for; on’8.3 bād ‘after’8.4 bǝrk ‘in(to), inside; among’8.5 ð̣ār ‘on; about’, mǝn ð̣ār ‘after’8.6 fǝnōhǝn ‘before; in front of; ago’8.7 ġayr ‘except’, mǝn ġayr ‘without’8.8 h- ‘to; for’8.9 hāl ‘at, by, beside’8.10 (ǝl-)hīs ‘like, as’8.11 k- (š-) ‘with’8.12 l- ‘to; for’8.13 mǝn ‘from’8.14 mǝn ḳǝdē ‘about, regarding’8.15 ǝm-mǝ́n ‘between’8.16 nǝxāli ‘under’8.17 sǝbēb ‘because of’8.18 sār ‘behind’8.19 tɛ ‘until, up to’8.20 tǝwōli ‘to, towards’8.21 xā ‘like, as … as’8.22 Additional Prepositions8.23 The Suffixed Forms of Prepositions9 Numerals9.1 Cardinals9.2 Special Forms Used With ‘Days’9.3 Ordinals9.4 Fractions9.5 Days of the Week10 Adverbs10.1 Demonstrative Adverbs10.2 Adverbs of Place10.3 Adverbs of Time10.4 Adverbs of Manner10.5 Adverbs of Degree11 Interrogatives11.1 mōn ‘who?’11.2 hɛ̄śǝn ‘what? why?’11.3 hɛ̄śǝn mǝn ‘which? what kind of?’11.4 ḥõ ‘where?’11.5 wǝ-kōh (kō) ‘why?’11.6 hībōh ‘how? what?’11.7 mayt ‘when?’11.8 kǝm ‘how many? how much?’11.9 ǝl hɛ̃ lā ‘isn’t that so?’12 Particles12.1 Coordinating Conjunctions12.2 Exclamations12.3 Vocatives12.4 Genitive Exponent ð- (‘of’)12.5 Miscellaneous Particles13 Some Syntactic Features13.1 Copular (Non-Verbal) Sentences13.2 Negation13.3 Expressing ‘have’13.4 Conditionals13.5 Subordination13.6 Interrogative ClausesTexts14 Johnstone’s Texts from Ali MusallamAppendix A: Texts 54 and 65 with Morpheme GlossingAppendix B: Texts 54 and 65 in Arabic ScriptAppendix C: Supplement to Johnstone’s Mehri LexiconAppendix D: Additions and Corrections to The Jibbali Language of Oman: Grammar and TextsBibliographyIndex of PassagesIndex of Select Mehri Words