Publications

Books published

(with Abu Athera, S.S.) Nafat Nabaiyya min al-'Imrt 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 nabai 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 Sr, 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 prsentes Jacques Grand'Henry 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 preconquest 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.185195. 'al-siyqt wa tarjamat al-'adab' ('Contexts and the translation of literature') in al-Sadda, H. (ed) Intj 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 varits mixtes de l'arabe 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: AEd, 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 musalsalt', 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. 'Tanwn 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 iyya 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 aramisch, wir verstehen es!' 60 Beitrge zur Semitistik. Festschrift fr Otto Jastrow zum 60. Geburtstag, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2002, 269280. 'Dialogue of the Deaf', in Institute of Translation and Interpreting Bulletin, December 2001, 28-30. 'Al-Wahba', Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol XI, 2000, 47. 'Umn: 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'allaqt', 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), 347362. '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 fr 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 (muwara) 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 Gaml ?Abd al-Nir', 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 fr 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 fr arabische Linguistik 10 (1983), 7-37

'Phonological variation in Bahraini Arabic: the [j] and [y] allophones of /j/', Zeitschrift fr 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 qa 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.