Communal Dialects in Baghdad

\texonly{ \evenpage \begincentertobookpage \hbox{}\unmedskip\vskip0pt plus.5fill \image{}{}{Haim Blanc in his study}{ \type{center} \hwidth{.8} \src{GS}{01-Haim} } \headless \endcentertobookpage }\texonly{\advance\toctwoind by \normalparindent}Foreword Biography of Haim Blanc Editorial Preamble  Alexander Borg \texonly{\sepline}Foreword Map: The Mesopotamian Dialect Area 1 Introduction  1.1 Aim and Scope  1.2 Sources  1.3 The Mesopotamian Dialect Area  1.4 The Baghdad Situation 2 Communal Dialects in the Arab World  2.1 Social Dialects  2.2 Communal Differentiation in Arabic 3 Phonology  3.1 Procedure and Notation  3.2 Consonants  3.3 Vowels  3.4 Stress  3.5 Consonant Clusters and Anaptyxis 4 Morphology  4.1 Procedure and Notation  4.2 The Pronoun  4.3 The Feminine Suffix  4.4 Some Other Suffixes  4.5 The Noun  4.6 The Numerals  4.7 The Participle  4.8 The Verb  4.9 Other Morpheme Classes 5 Some Syntactic Features  5.1 Introductory  5.2 The Postpositional Copula  5.3 Absence of Article  5.4 Anticipatory Pronoun Suffix Plus L 6 Some Lexical Features  6.1 Introductory  6.2 Basic Vocabulary  6.3 Interrogatives and Demonstratives  6.4 Elements of Non-Arabic Origin  6.5 Selected Lexical Items 7 Summary and Conclusion  7.1 Summary of Findings  7.2 Characterization of the Dialects Abbreviations Used in References and Notes References Cited Notes Index