An Annotated Corpus of Three Hundred Proverbs Sayings and Idioms in Eastern Jibbali/???r????t

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(209 213 219 1)>This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of Jibbali/???r???t an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern South Arabian sub-branch of Semitic spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(209 213 219 1)>Reflecting the historical value of proverbs and idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of Jibbali/???r???t proverbs sayings and idioms from Arabic-language publications as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of lexicon phonetics phonology and morphology.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(209 213 219 1)>Castagna's grammatical analysis (phonetic phonological and morphological) of these pieces of folk knowledge underpins the documentation of an obsolete lexicon. It is accompanied by a brief introduction to the study of proverbs (paremiology) and a succinct grammatical sketch of Jibbali/???r???t making the book useful both to experts and to students of these topics.</span></p>