Omani Mehri

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Texts
Abbreviations and Symbols
Text Citation
A Note on Transcription and Translation

Grammar

1 Introduction
?1.1?Previous Scholarship on Mehri and MSA
?1.2?Dialects of Mehri
?1.3?The Position of Mehri within MSA
?1.4?The Position of MSA in Semitic
?1.5?Johnstone's Mehri Texts
?1.6?Johnstone's Audio Material
?1.7?This Grammar

2 Phonology
?2.1?Mehri Consonants
?2.2?Mehri Vowels
?2.3?Word Stress

3 Pronouns
?3.1?Independent Personal Pronouns
?3.2?Suffixed Pronouns
?3.3?Direct Object Pronouns (t-)
?3.4?Demonstratives
?3.5?Indefinite Pronouns
?3.6?Reflexives
?3.7?Reciprocals
?3.8?Relative Pronouns

4 Nouns
?4.1?Gender
?4.2?Duals
?4.3?Plurals
?4.4?Definite Article
?4.5?Diminutives
?4.6?Construct State

5 Adjectives
?5.1?Agreement
?5.2?Declension
?5.3?Substantivization
?5.4?Comparatives
?5.5?Quantifiers

6 Verbs: Stems
?6.1?G-Stem
?6.2?D/L-Stem
?6.3?H-Stem
?6.4?S-Stems
?6.5?T-Stems
?6.6?Quadriliterals
?6.7?Quinqueliterals (Qw- and Qy-Stems)

7 Verbs: Tenses and Forms
?7.1?Verbal Tenses and Moods
?7.2?Weak Verbs
?7.3?The Irregular Verb ?om 'want'

8 Prepositions
?8.1?ar 'except, but'
?8.2?b- 'in, at; with; for; on'
?8.3?bad 'after'
?8.4?b?rk 'in(to), inside; among'
?8.5???ar 'on; about', m?n ??ar 'after'
?8.6?f?noh?n 'before; in front of; ago'
?8.7?gayr 'except', m?n gayr 'without'
?8.8?h- 'to; for'
?8.9?hal 'at, by, beside'
?8.10?(?l-)his 'like, as'
?8.11?k- (s-) 'with'
?8.12?l- 'to; for'
?8.13?m?n 'from'
?8.14?m?n ??de 'about, regarding'
?8.15??m-m??n 'between'
?8.16?n?xali 'under'
?8.17?s?beb 'because of'
?8.18?sar 'behind'
?8.19?t? 'until, up to'
?8.20?t?woli 'to, towards'
?8.21?xa 'like, as ... as'
?8.22?Additional Prepositions
?8.23?The Suffixed Forms of Prepositions

9 Numerals
?9.1?Cardinals
?9.2?Special Forms Used With 'Days'
?9.3?Ordinals
?9.4?Fractions
?9.5?Days of the Week

10 Adverbs
?10.1?Demonstrative Adverbs
?10.2?Adverbs of Place
?10.3?Adverbs of Time
?10.4?Adverbs of Manner
?10.5?Adverbs of Degree

11 Interrogatives
?11.1?mon 'who?'
?11.2?h??s?n 'what? why?'
?11.3?h??s?n m?n 'which? what kind of?'
?11.4??o 'where?'
?11.5?w?-koh (ko) 'why?'
?11.6?hiboh 'how? what?'
?11.7?mayt 'when?'
?11.8?k?m 'how many? how much?'
?11.9??l h?? la 'isn't that so?'

12 Particles
?12.1?Coordinating Conjunctions
?12.2?Exclamations
?12.3?Vocatives
?12.4?Genitive Exponent ?- ('of')
?12.5?Miscellaneous Particles

13 Some Syntactic Features
?13.1?Copular (Non-Verbal) Sentences
?13.2?Negation
?13.3?Expressing 'have'
?13.4?Conditionals
?13.5?Subordination
?13.6?Interrogative Clauses

Texts

14 Johnstone's Texts from Ali Musallam

Appendix A: Texts 54 and 65 with Morpheme Glossing
Appendix B: Texts 54 and 65 in Arabic Script
Appendix C: Supplement to Johnstone's Mehri Lexicon
Appendix D: Additions and Corrections to The Jibbali Language of Oman: Grammar and Texts
Bibliography
Index of Passages
Index of Select Mehri Words