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Publication details [#22836]

Holes, C.D. 1986. Communicative function and pronominal variation in Bahraini Arabic. Anthropological Linguistics 28 (1) : 10–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hearer reference | intention | personal pronoun | phonological variability

Language as a subject

Arabic, Bahraini

Annotation

H. explains switching between alternative phonological variants of the Bahraini Arabic second person enclitic pronouns in terms of different `modes of reference' and differences in communicative intent.