Genealogical Classification Of Semitic

Author : Leonid Kogan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614515494

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Genealogical Classification of Semitic by Leonid Kogan Pdf

This volume is the first of its kind to offer a detailed, monographic treatment of Semitic genealogical classification. The introduction describes the author's methodological framework and surveys the history of the subgrouping discussion in Semitic linguistics, and the first chapter provides a detailed description of the proto-Semitic basic vocabulary. Each of its seven main chapters deals with one of the key issues of the Semitic subgrouping debate: the East/West dichotomy, the Central Semitic hypothesis, the North West Semitic subgroup, the Canaanite affiliation of Ugaritic, the historical unity of Aramaic, and the diagnostic features of Ethiopian Semitic and of Modern South Arabian. The book aims at a balanced account of all evidence pertinent to the subgrouping discussion, but its main focus is on the diagnostic lexical features, heavily neglected in the majority of earlier studies dealing with this subject. The author tries to assess the subgrouping potential of the vocabulary using various methods of its diachronic stratification. The hundreds of etymological comparisons given throughout the book can be conveniently accessed through detailed lexical indices.

Author : Koert van Bekkum,Gert Kwakkel,Wolter H. Rose
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004380851

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Biblical Hebrew in Context by Koert van Bekkum,Gert Kwakkel,Wolter H. Rose Pdf

Biblical Hebrew in Context applies a historical approach of the Semitic languages and literature to Mesopotamian and Biblical Law, the history, grammar and teaching of Hebrew and Aramaic, and the translation and interpretation of Ugaritic and Old Testament texts.

Author : John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429655388

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The Semitic Languages by John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El Pdf

The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following: • new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology • an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic • text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation • new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference. This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004687479

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The IOS Annual Volume 24: "Let the Tabarna, the King, Be Dear to the Gods" by Anonim Pdf

Volume 24 of the Israel Oriental Studies Annual includes eight articles. The Ancient Near Eastern section consists of five articles. Four deal with Hittite and Anatolian subjects (Burgin, Gilan, Cohen and Hawkins); one discusses the “Laws of Hazor” text fragment and its relationship to other cuneiform law collections (Darabi). The Semitic section includes three articles. The first is the second instalment of Etymogical Investigations on Jibbali/Śḥerέt Anthroponyms (Castagna and Al-'amri). The second article is a discussion of the relationship between Ethiopian Semitic languages and ancient Egyptian (Cerqueglini). Sealing the Semitic section and volume 24 is a study of spoken Ashkenazic Hebrew among Hassidic communities (Yampolskaya et al.).

Author : Esther Eshel,Michael Langlois
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110984491

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The Scribe in the Biblical World by Esther Eshel,Michael Langlois Pdf

This book offers a fresh look at the status of the scribe in society, his training, practices, and work in the biblical world. What was the scribe’s role in these societies? Were there rival scribal schools? What was their role in daily life? How many scripts and languages did they grasp? Did they master political and religious rhetoric? Did they travel or share foreign traditions, cultures, and beliefs? Were scribes redactors, or simply copyists? What was their influence on the redaction of the Bible? How did they relate to the political and religious powers of their day? Did they possess any authority themselves? These are the questions that were tackled during an international conference held at the University of Strasbourg on June 17–19, 2019. The conference served as the basis for this publication, which includes fifteen articles covering a wide geographical and chronological range, from Late Bronze Age royal scribes to refugees in Masada at the end of the Second Temple period.

Author : Ambjörn Sjörs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004348554

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Historical Aspects of Standard Negation in Semitic by Ambjörn Sjörs Pdf

In Historical Aspects of Standard Negation in Semitic Ambjörn Sjörs describes the grammar of verbal negation in a wide selection of Semitic languages with an emphasis on the historical change of negative expressions.

Author : Peter Machinist,Robert A. Harris,Joshua A. Berman,Nili Samet,Noga Ayali-Darshan
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144847

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Ve-’Ed Ya‘aleh (Gen 2 by Peter Machinist,Robert A. Harris,Joshua A. Berman,Nili Samet,Noga Ayali-Darshan Pdf

Sixty-six colleagues, friends, and former students of Edward L. Greenstein present essays honoring him upon his retirement. Throughout Greenstein's half-century career he demonstrated expertise in a host of areas astonishing in its breadth and depth, and each of the essays in these two volumes focuses on an area of particular interest to him. Volume 1 includes essays on ancient Near Eastern studies, Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic languages, and biblical law and narrative. Volume 2 includes essays on biblical wisdom and poetry, biblical reception and exegesis, and postmodern readings of the Bible.

Author : Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee,Na’ama Pat-El
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646021581

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Bēl Lišāni by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee,Na’ama Pat-El Pdf

Akkadian, a Semitic language attested in writing from 2600 BCE until the first century CE, was the language of Mesopotamia for nearly three millennia. This volume examines the language from a comparative and historical linguistic perspective. Inspired by the work of renowned linguist John Huehnergard and featuring contributions from top scholars in the field, Bēl Lišāni showcases the latest research on Akkadian linguistics. Chapters focus on a wide range of topics, including lexicon, morphology, word order, syntax, verbal semantics, and subgrouping. Building upon Huehnergard’s pioneering studies focused on the identification of Proto-Akkadian features, the contributors explore linguistic innovations in the language from historical and comparative perspectives. In doing so, they open the way for further etymological, dialectical, and lexical research into Akkadian. An important update on and synthesis of the research in Akkadian linguistics, this volume will be welcomed by Semitists, Akkadian language specialists, and scholars and students interested in historical linguistics. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Øyvind Bjøru, Maksim Kalinin, N. J. C. Kouwenberg, Sergey Loesov, Jacob J. de Ridder, Ambjörn Sjörs, Michael P. Streck, and Juan-Pablo Vita.

Author : Mary E. Buck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004415119

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The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit by Mary E. Buck Pdf

In The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit Mary Buck pursues a nuanced view of populations in the Bronze Age Levant, with the objective of understanding the ancient polity of Ugarit as a kin-based culture that shares close ties with neighbouring Amorite populations.

Author : Kees Versteegh
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748694600

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Arabic Language by Kees Versteegh Pdf

An introductory guide for students of Arabic language, Arabic historical linguistics and Arabic sociolinguistics.

Author : Stanley D. Brunn,Roland Kehrein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031181467

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Language, Society and the State in a Changing World by Stanley D. Brunn,Roland Kehrein Pdf

This book addresses the changing contemporary language worlds in three major contexts. It first discusses how the language landscape maps of cities are changing as a result of increased migration, globalization and global media. These features are evident in place names and place name changes as well as the densities and frequencies of language spoken and used in texts. The second section discusses how the state itself is responding to both indigenous and heritage groups desiring to be included and represented in the state’s political landscapes and also expressions of art and culture. In the third section, the authors address a number of cutting-edge theses that are emerging in the linguistic geography and political words. These include the importance of gender, anthropogenetic discourse, the preservation of endangered languages and challenges to a state’s official language policy. Through including authors from nine different countries, who are writing about issues in twelve countries and their overlapping interests in language mapping, language usage and policy and visual representations, this book provides inspiring research into future topics at local, national, regional and international scales.

Author : M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro,Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Afroasiatic languages
ISBN : 9781646022311

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Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic by M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro,Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli Pdf

Author : Josef Tropper,Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781646021246

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Classical Ethiopic by Josef Tropper,Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee Pdf

Upon its publication in 2002, Josef Tropper’s Altäthiopisch: Grammatik des Gəˁəz mit Übungstexten und Glossar was quickly recognized as the best modern grammar of Classical Ethiopic in any language. Now Eisenbrauns makes Tropper’s grammar available for the first time in English, in this revised and expanded edition by Josef Tropper and Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee. Gəˁəz literature is diverse and of major importance for the study of early Christianity, Judaism, and the history of eastern Africa. The language of this rich literature, however, has been difficult to access until now. Designed to help language learners acquire competency with the script from the start, Classical Ethiopic provides a comprehensive treatment of Gəˁəz grammar, with detailed chapters on the language’s writing system, phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, and syntax. Numerous example sentences illustrate the grammatical concepts discussed, and each example is presented in Ethiopic script, transliteration, and English translation. The grammar concludes with an appendix presenting sample texts to be used as exercises, an English-Gəˁəz glossary, and an updated bibliography that takes into account the developments that have occurred in the study of Gəˁəz in the nearly two decades since Tropper’s original publication. Appropriate for the classroom and for independent study, Classical Ethiopic is sure to become the standard reference in English for the study of the language.

Author : Ruth A. Berman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262066

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Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew by Ruth A. Berman Pdf

The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise.

Author : Mauro Tosco
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264572

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Afroasiatic by Mauro Tosco Pdf

The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. They are written by leading specialists and are representative of widely different perspectives and interests, from the analysis of data from scarcely known varieties to the reappraisal of old debates (such as the value of the Classical Arabic verbal forms). Reflecting a great diversity of language structures and functions, the articles are grouped into three broad areas: the phylum as such in its classificatory and typological aspects; the analysis of the intricate morphology of Afroasiatic and its developments; and the syntax of Afroasiatic in its widest sense, from the clause to the sentence and beyond. They witness how Afroasiatic, with its unsurpassed historical depth and immense geographical breadth, keeps representing a constant source of fascinating data and implications for linguistic theory.