Clive Holes's research while affiliated with University of Cambridge and other places

Publications (3)

Article
The purpose of this paper is to explain how changes in the social structure of the countries of the Arabic-speaking Middle East are being reflected in new patterns of dialect use. The last 30 years have seen an enormously increased interest in Arabic as a living mode of everyday communication, reflected in many dialectological, typological and soci...
Article
FIHRIS MAKHTUTAT MAKTABAT MAKKA AL‐MUKARRAMA: QISM AL‐QUR'AN WA‐'ULUMIH; QISM AL‐TARIKH = HANDLIST OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF MAKKA AL‐MUKARRAMA: QUR'AN AND QUR'ANIC SCIENCES; HISTORY SECTION. Prepared by MUHAMMAD AL‐HABIB al‐HILA. London, Al‐Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1994. 2 vols. Each 145 pp. Col. facsims. £18 each.

Citations

... This forms the foundation of possible opposition between concatenative languages such as English and nonconcatenative languages such as Arabic. Nonconcatenative languages assign a substantial role to consonants in their lexical architecturesnamely, consonants carry lexical and semantic information while vowels convey structural information (e.g., Bentin and Feldman 1990;Deutsch and Frost 2003;Feldman 2000;Holes 2004;Ravid 2003;Shimron 2003). The languages in which segmental contributions to word recognition both at the word level and at the sentence level have been investigated are mainly concatenative systems in which lexical items are built by combining discrete stems with discrete affixes. ...
... Traditional Bedouin features are disappearing faster from the speech of the young members of the tribe, and there was already a major tendency for women to make use of sedentary characteristics in the everyday vernacular 50 years ago (Palva 1976), since they appear more feminine and sophisticated than the respective Bedouin ones which relate to rough and tough masculinity (Holes 1995). ...