Publications
Books published
- (with Abu Athera, S.S.) Nafaḥāt Nabaṭiyya
min al-'Imārāt al-'Arabiyya:
The Nabati Poetry of the United Arab Emirates. Ithaca,
Reading, UK, 2011, x + 240pp.
- Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf. New edition, Routledge,
London, 2010. xxvi + 435 pp. + CD.
This is a completely revised and expanded edition of the book
of similar title first
published in 1984 (see below).
- (with Abu Athera, S.S.) Poetry and Politics in Contemporary
Bedouin Society.
Published jointly by Ithaca Press, Reading, UK, and the American
University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 2009.
xviii + 353pp.
- Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia,
Volume II: Ethnographic Texts. Handbuch der Orientalistik
Series, Brill, Leiden, Boston, Cologne. 2005. xli + 347pp.
- Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions and Varieties.
Revised Edition. Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and
Linguistics Series, Georgetown University Press, Washington
D.C., 2004. xix + 420pp. (This is a revised and updated
edition of my 1995 book of the same title).
- Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume
I: Glossary. Handbuch der Orientalistik Series, Brill,
Leiden, Boston, Cologne. 2001. lxiii + 573pp.
- Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions and Varieties.
Longman Linguistics Library, Longman, London & New York,
1995. xiii + 343pp.
- (with Eid, M., eds.) Perspectives on Arabic
Linguistics Vol. 5 = Current issues in Linguistic Theory No
101. Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1993. 347 pp.
- (with Harris, R. & Auty, N.) Breakthrough Arabic.
Macmillan, London, 1992. 243 pp + 3 C90 cassettes; CD version,
2005, McGraw-Hill.
- Gulf Arabic. Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars
Series, RoutledgeCurzon, London, 1990. 302 pp.
- Language Variation and Change in a Modernising Arab
State. Library of Arabic Linguistics Series, Monograph No 7,
Kegan Paul International, London & New York, 1987. 214 pp.
- Colloquial Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Arabia.
RKP, London, 1984; reprinted 1986, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2004, 2005.
319 pp + cassette.
Books in press/preparation
- Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia.
Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax. Brill, Leiden, Boston,
Cologne, (due 2011). 450pp approx.
Articles in refereed journals/ chapters in books
(i) in press and forthcoming:
- 'The language of nabaṭi poetry' in de Jong, R. & Edzard, L.
Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics On-Line Edition, Leiden,
Brill (in preparation and forthcoming in 2012)
- 'An Arabic text from Sūr, Oman' in de Jong, R. & Holes, C.D. (eds)
Ingham of Arabia: Articles in Honour of Professor Bruce Ingham on the
Occasion of his Retirement. Leiden, Brill, (due 2012), 20pp.
- 'Language and identity in the Arabian Gulf' in Journal of Arabian
Studies, (due December 2011) 27pp.
- 'Some unusual verb forms of north-eastern Arabia' in Den
Heiyer J., La Spisa P., Tuerlinckx L. (eds) Autour de la langue arabe. Etudes
présentées à Jacques Grand'Henry à l'occasion de son 70e
anniversaire,
Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 61, Leuven: Peeters,
(due 2012). 12 pp.
- ‘A participial infix in the eastern Arabian dialects – an ancient
pre-conquest feature?’ in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 37,
(due 2011), 35pp.
- 'Orality, language and culture' forthcoming in Owens, J. (ed.) Handbook
of Arabic Linguistics, Oxford, OUP (due 2012). 20pp.
(ii) published:
- 'Letter to Obama' in Middle Eastern Literatures,
14 No 2 (2011), pp.185-195.
- 'al-siyāqāt wa tarjamat al-'adab' ('Contexts and the
translation of literature') in al-Sadda, H. (ed) Intāj al-Ma'rifa
'an al-'Alam al-'Arabiyy ('The Production of Knowledge about the Arab World'),
The Higher Committee for Culture, Cairo, 2010, pp. 19-34.
- 'Word order and textual function in Gulf Arabic' in Owens, J.
& Elgibali, A. (eds) Information Structure in Spoken Arabic,
Routledge, London and New York, 2010, pp. 61-74.
- 'The 'mixed' Arabic of the letters of 19th and early 20th century
Gulf rulers', in J. Lentin & J. Grand'Henry (eds.) Moyen Arabe et
variétés mixtes de l'arabe à travers l'histoire, Peeters,
Louvain-la-Neuve, 2008, pp. 193-229.
- 'A Bedouin poem on the Iraq War' Al-'Arabiyya 40 - 41
(2007-8), pp. 121-123.
- (with Abu Athera, S.S.) 'Animal imagery in modern Bedouin poetry'
in Holes C.D. (ed.) Popular Arabic Poetry and Song, Quaderni di Studi Arabi,
Nuova Serie 2 (2007), 41-52.
- (with Abu Athera, S.S.) 'George Bush, Bedouin Poet', Journal of Middle
Eastern Literatures 10 No 3 (2007) pp. 273-289.
- 'Omani Arabic' in Versteegh, K., Elgibali, A., Woidich, M., and Zaborski, A. (eds.)
Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Vol 3, Brill, Leiden,
Boston and Cologne, 2007, 478-491.
- '"Hello, I say, and welcome! Where from, these riding men?"
Arabic popular poetry and political satire: a study in
intertextuality from Jordan' in Ditters, E. & Motzi, H. (eds.)
Approaches to Arabic Linguistics: Festschrift presented to
Kees Versteegh on his 60th birthday. Brill, Leiden, 2007,
pp.543-563.
- 'Kuwaiti Arabic' in Versteegh, K., Woidich, M., Elgibali, A., and Zaborski, A.
(eds.) Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Vol 2: Eg-Lan, Brill,
Leiden, Boston and Cologne, 2007, 608-620.
- 'Colloquial Iraqi Arabic' in Postgate, N. (ed.)
Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern, British School
of Archeology in Iraq, 2007, 123-134.
- 'The Arabian Peninsula and Iraq',
in Ammon, Dittmar, Mattheier and Trudgill (eds.)
Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of
Language and Society, Volume 3. de Gruyter, Berlin & New
York, 2006, 1930-1941.
- 'The Arabic dialects of Arabia', in Proceedings of the
Seminar for Arabian Studies 36, 2006, 25-34.
- 'Gulf States' in Versteegh, K., Woidich, M., Elgibali, A., and Zaborski, A. (eds.)
Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Vol 1: A-Ed, Brill, Leiden,
Boston and Cologne, 2006, 210-216.
- 'Bahraini Arabic' in Versteegh, K., Woidich, M., Elgibali, A., and Zaborski, A. (eds.)
Encyclopaedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Vol 1: A-Ed, Brill, Leiden,
Boston and Cologne, 2006, 241-255.
- 'Dialect and national identity: the cultural politics of
self-representation in Bahraini musalsalāt', in Paul Dresch
and James Piscatori (eds.) Monarchies and Nations: Globalisation
and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf, I.B. Tauris,
Reading, 2005, 52-72.
- 'Theme X of the verb in the Arabic dialects of
eastern Arabia' in Khan, G. (ed.) Semitic Studies in Honour
of Edward Ullendorff. Brill, Leiden, Boston, Cologne,
2005, 115-125
- 'The Birth of Orientalism: Sir William Jones', in France
P. & Gillespie S. (eds.) The Oxford History of Literary
Translation in English, Vol III 1690-1760. OUP, Oxford,
2005, 443-455.
- 'Tanwīn in the Arabic Dialects of Eastern Arabia' in
Woidich M. and Versteegh K. (eds.) Festschrift in Honour of
the 60th Birthday of Peter Behnstedt - Estudios de Dialectologia
Norteafricana y Andalusi, 8, Zaragoza,
(2004) [2006], 89-97
- 'Arabian Gulf ḥiyya biyya, Jewish Babylonian
farfisa, Christian Sicilian sepolcri: popular
customs with a common origin?' Journal of Semitic Studies
49/2 (2004), 275-287.
- 'Quadriliteral verbs in the Arabic Dialects of Eastern
Arabia', in Haak, M., de Jong, R. and Versteegh, K. Approaches
to Arabic Dialects: A Collection of Articles presented to
Manfred Woidich on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday,
Brill, Leiden, 2004, 97-116.
- 'Zawdj', Encyclopaedia of Islam, Supplement (2004),
842-843.
- 'Non-Arabic Semitic elements in the Arabic dialects of
eastern Arabia', in Arnold, W and Bobzin, H (eds) 'Sprich
doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!' 60
Beiträge zur Semitistik. Festschrift für Otto Jastrow zum 60.
Geburtstag, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2002, 269-280.
- 'Dialogue of the Deaf', in Institute of Translation
and Interpreting Bulletin, December 2001, 28-30.
- 'Al-Wahība', Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol XI, 2000,
47.
- 'Umān: modern Arabic dialects', Encyclopaedia of
Islam, Vol X, 2000, 817-8.
- Main article on 'Arabic Literature in English Translation'
and articles on 'the Koran', 'the Mu'allaqāt', and 'the
Muqaddima' in France, P. (ed.) The Oxford Guide to
Literature in English Translation, OUP, 1999, 139-149.
- 'Socio-economic change and language change in the eastern
Arab World', in Etudes Asiatiques 53/1 (1999), 45-74.
- 'Retention and loss of the passive verb in the Arabic
dialects of northern Oman and eastern Arabia', Journal of
Semitic Studies 43/2 (1998), 347-362.
- 'The Debate of Pearl-Diving and Oil-Wells: a poetic
commentary on socio-economic change in the Gulf of the 1930s',
Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures Vol 1 No 1
(1998), 87-112.
- 'The Arabic dialects of south-eastern Arabia in a
socio-historical perspective', Zeitschrift für arabische
Linguistik 31 (1996), 34-56.
- 'The Dispute of Coffee and Tea: a debate-poem from the
Gulf', in Smart, J. (ed.) Tradition and Modernity in Arabic
Language and Literature, Curzon Press, London, 1996,
302-15.
- 'The Rat and the Ship?s Captain: a dialogue poem
(muħāwara) from the Gulf, with some comments on the
social and literary-historical background of the genre',
Studia Orientalia 75 (1995), 101-120.
- 'Community, dialect and urbanisation in the
Arabic-speaking Middle East', Bulletin of the School of
Oriental and African Studies 58/2 (1995), 270-87.
- 'The structure and function of parallelism and repetition
in spoken Arabic: a sociolinguistic study', Journal of
Semitic Studies, 40/1 (1995), 57-81.
- 'Designing English-Arabic dictionaries', in De Beaugrande,
R., Shunnaq, A., Heliel, M. (eds.) Language, Discourse and
Translation in the West and Middle East, Benjamins,
Amsterdam, 1994, 161-80.
- Main article 'Arabic', and articles on the language
situation in 'Bahrain', 'Lebanon', 'Libya', 'Oman', 'Saudi
Arabia', 'Syria', 'United Arab Emirates', in Asher, R.E. et al
(eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics
(10 Vols.), Pergamon/ Aberdeen University Press, 1994: Vol.1
191-4, 300; Vol. 4 2068-9, 2207; Vol. 5 2872; Vol. 7 3662;
Vol.8 4500; Vol. 9 4836.
- 'The uses of variation: a study of the political speeches
of Gamāl ?Abd al-Nāßir', in Eid, M. & Holes, C.D. (eds.)
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics Vol. 5, Benjamins,
Amsterdam, 1993, 13-45.
- 'Kashkasha and the fronting and affrication of the
velar stops revisited: a contribution to the historical
phonology of the peninsular Arabic dialects', in Kaye, A. (ed)
Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau, Vol. 1,
Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1991, 652-78.
- 'Towards a dialect geography of Oman', Bulletin of the
School of Oriental and African Studies 52/3 (1989),
446-62.
- 'Communicative function and pronominal variation in
Bahraini Arabic', Anthropological Linguistics 28/1
(1986), 10-30.
- 'Variation in the morphophonology of Arabic dialects',
Transactions of the Philological Society 84 (1986),
167-190.
- 'The social motivation for phonological convergence in
three Arabic dialects', International Journal of the
Sociology of Language, 61 (1986), 33-51.
- 'Bahraini dialects: sectarian differences exemplified
through texts', Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik
13 (1984), 27-67.
- 'Patterns of communal language variation in Bahrain',
Language in Society 12/4 (1983), 433-457.
- 'Bahraini dialects: sectarian dialects and the
sedentary/nomadic split', Zeitschrift für arabische
Linguistik 10 (1983), 7-37
- 'Phonological variation in Bahraini Arabic: the [j] and
[y] allophones of /j/', Zeitschrift für arabische
Linguistik 4 (1980), 72-89
Papers in conference proceedings
- 'The Omani dialects in their regional context:yesterday, today,
and tomorrow', in Al-Zidjaly N. (ed.) Building Bridges: Integrating Languages,
Linguistics, Literature, and Translation in Pedagogy and Research, Sultan
Qaboos University, Oman, 2009, 215-231.
- 'Reflexes of CLA qad and qaŧ in the Arabic dialects of
eastern and central Arabia'. In Aspects of the Dialects of Arabic
Today: Proceedings of the 4nd Conference of the International
Association of Arabic Dialectologists (AIDA), Marrakesh, 2000, 88-97.
- 'The passive in Omani Arabic'. In Proceedings of the 2nd
Conference of the International Association of Arabic Dialectologists
(AIDA), Cambridge, 1995, 69-74.
- 'A multi-media, topic-based approach to university-level Arabic
language teaching'. In Diglossic Tension: Teaching Arabic for
Communication, Folia Scholastica (University of Leeds), 1990, 36-41.
- 'The typology of Omani Arabic dialects'. In Proceedings of the BRISMES
International Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, 1988, 12-21.
- (with Baker, M.) 'The use of computerised text concordancing in Arabic
language teaching and translation'. In Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on
the Teaching of Arabic with the Computer, University of Leeds, 1988, 5-29.
- 'Principles of Arabic language course design'. In Proceedings of the
BRISMES/MESA International Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, 1986, 9-18.
- Textual approximation in the teaching of academic writing to Arab students:
a contrastive approach. In Swales, J & Mustapha, H (eds.) English for Special
Purposes in the Arab World, Aston University, 1984, 228-242.
Other
- 'Bridegroom of the State' by Ahmed Fuad Nigm (Egyptian Arabic poem done into
English verse translation), for BBC World Service Assignment, broadcast 17
May 2007.
- 'Foreword' to Beeston, A.F.L. The Arabic Language Today (1970), republished by
Georgetown University Press, 2006.
- 'A word in your ear, Tony - learn a little Arabic' (article in The Times,
October 23, 2001).
- 'The Ballad of Beans and Meat' by Ahmed Fuad Nigm (Egyptian Arabic poem done
into English verse translation), Banipal No 3 (1998), 52.
- Programme on Ahmed Fuad Nigm, Egyptian colloquial poet, on BBC Radio
4 Nightwaves, broadcast on 30 April 1996.
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