Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 1999 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Arabistic, grade: 1, University of Exeter, language: English, abstract: This work begins with an introduction in which the area under investigation, Wādī Ḥaḍramawt is described, the dialect Ḥaḍramī Arabic (HA) is defined and previous work on HA is reviewed. In Chapter One the segmental phonology is dealt with...