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Soqotra, Mahra, and Dhofar
Studies in Modern South Arabian Languages and Oral Literatures. A Volume in Honor of Vitaly Naumkin
Series: - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 114
For the first time in the history of Semitic studies, this volume is devoted entirely to Modern South Arabian (MSA) as a unified linguistic and cultural entity. The three principal regions inhabited by MSA speakersâMahra and Dhofar on the Arabian mainland, and the island of Soqotraâare comprehensively represented. The contributions span a broad thematic range, including cultural history, field sociology, and, above all, linguistics (both synchronic and diachronic), alongside the rich oral traditions of MSA-speaking communities.
Maria Bulakh, Ph.D. (2005), RSUH, is an assistant professor of Ethiopian and Semitic studies at HSE University. She has published extensively on Ethiopian and MSA linguistics, notably, The T-Stems in Soqotri. A Contribution to Semitic Detransitivising Derivation (Brill, 2024). She is a field researcher on Soqotra since 2017.
Leonid Kogan, Ph.D. (2001), RSUH, Habil. (2020), HSE University, is head of the Near Eastern department at this university. His books and articles deal with a wide scope of linguistic and philological topics in the Semitic domain, including early Akkadian, Ethiopian, and MSA. Co-editor of the Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature (Brill, 2014 and 2018). He is a field researcher on Soqotra since 2010.
Leonid Kogan, Ph.D. (2001), RSUH, Habil. (2020), HSE University, is head of the Near Eastern department at this university. His books and articles deal with a wide scope of linguistic and philological topics in the Semitic domain, including early Akkadian, Ethiopian, and MSA. Co-editor of the Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature (Brill, 2014 and 2018). He is a field researcher on Soqotra since 2010.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Vitaly Naumkin on Soqotra and the Mainland: An Appreciation
âKevin McNeer
1 The First Person Singular Pronominal Suffix in Soqotri
âMaria Bulakh
2 Clans, Tribes, and State in Soqotra: A Conjunctural Narrative of Polity Formation in an Indigenous Community
âSerge D. Elie
3 How the Cat Came to Soqoá¹rÄ: Marginal Notes on Indian Ocean History
âGeorge Hatke
4 More on Possession Marking in Soqotri: Evidence from CSOL III and Its Implications for Some Previously Achieved Results
âLeonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh
5 Vermin (réËeÅ) and Other Small Creatures of Soqotra
âMiranda J. Morris and Aḥmad SaËd Taḥkà Al-Soḳóá¹ri
6 The Ground Loom on Soqotra: History, Technology, Terminology and Culture
âElizaveta Goroshnikova and Ekaterina Vizirova
7 Root Incompatibilities in Mehri
âAnton Kungl
8 âQuand le monde parlaitâ: une orthographe pour le hobyot
âAli Manoubi
9 The Crow and the Frankincense Harvester: A Mehri Debate Poem
âSaeed al-Qumairi, Janet C.E. Watson and Miranda J. Morris
10 Water, Clouds and Wind among the Mahrah
âJanet C.E. Watson, Jack Wilson, Abdullah al-Mahri, Husayn al-Mahri, Ahmed al-Mahri and Saeed al-Qumairi
11 A Sung nana Poem from the Island of al-ḤallÄnÄ«ya (Kuria Muria Archipelago)
âGiuliano Castagna and Suhail al-Amri
12 Quand le préfixe sâenracine: Du verbe âfaireâ en jibbali (sudarabique moderne) et de quelques autres verbes fossiles en *sÌâ
âJulien Dufour
13 Language, Identity and Glottonyms among the Jibbali/ÅḥerÉÌt Speakers
âFabio Gasparini and Giuliano Castagna
14 The Distribution of Suffixed and Independent Object Pronouns in Modern South Arabian
âSabrina Bendjaballah and Aaron Rubin
Index
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Vitaly Naumkin on Soqotra and the Mainland: An Appreciation
âKevin McNeer
Part 1 Soqotra
1 The First Person Singular Pronominal Suffix in Soqotri
âMaria Bulakh
2 Clans, Tribes, and State in Soqotra: A Conjunctural Narrative of Polity Formation in an Indigenous Community
âSerge D. Elie
3 How the Cat Came to Soqoá¹rÄ: Marginal Notes on Indian Ocean History
âGeorge Hatke
4 More on Possession Marking in Soqotri: Evidence from CSOL III and Its Implications for Some Previously Achieved Results
âLeonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh
5 Vermin (réËeÅ) and Other Small Creatures of Soqotra
âMiranda J. Morris and Aḥmad SaËd Taḥkà Al-Soḳóá¹ri
6 The Ground Loom on Soqotra: History, Technology, Terminology and Culture
âElizaveta Goroshnikova and Ekaterina Vizirova
Part 2 Mahra
7 Root Incompatibilities in Mehri
âAnton Kungl
8 âQuand le monde parlaitâ: une orthographe pour le hobyot
âAli Manoubi
9 The Crow and the Frankincense Harvester: A Mehri Debate Poem
âSaeed al-Qumairi, Janet C.E. Watson and Miranda J. Morris
10 Water, Clouds and Wind among the Mahrah
âJanet C.E. Watson, Jack Wilson, Abdullah al-Mahri, Husayn al-Mahri, Ahmed al-Mahri and Saeed al-Qumairi
Part 3 Dhofar
11 A Sung nana Poem from the Island of al-ḤallÄnÄ«ya (Kuria Muria Archipelago)
âGiuliano Castagna and Suhail al-Amri
12 Quand le préfixe sâenracine: Du verbe âfaireâ en jibbali (sudarabique moderne) et de quelques autres verbes fossiles en *sÌâ
âJulien Dufour
13 Language, Identity and Glottonyms among the Jibbali/ÅḥerÉÌt Speakers
âFabio Gasparini and Giuliano Castagna
Part 4 Modern South Arabian in General
14 The Distribution of Suffixed and Independent Object Pronouns in Modern South Arabian
âSabrina Bendjaballah and Aaron Rubin
Index
The book will be of interest for academic institutions specialized in Middle Eastern studies, general and Semitic linguistics, oral literatures and literary theory, as well as libraries, specialists and students dealing with these and related areas of research. General reader interested in todayâs Yemen and Oman can also profit from reading the volume.