Semitic Linguistics

Author : Patrick R. Bennett
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575065090

Get Book

Comparative Semitic Linguistics by Patrick R. Bennett Pdf

As the title indicates, this unique resource is a manual on comparative linguistics, with the examples taken exclusively from Semitic languages. It is an innovative volume that recalls the earlier tradition of textbooks of comparative philology, which, however, exclusively treated Indo-European languages. It is suited for students with at least a year of a Semitic language. By far the largest component of the book are the nine wordlists that provide the data to be manipulated by the student. Says reviewer Peter Daniels, the wordlists “constitute a unique resource for all of comparative linguistics—a considerable quantity of uniform data from a host of related languages. They would be useful for any class in comparative linguistics, not just for those interested specifically in Semitic.” Scattered throughout the text are 25 exercises based on the wordlists that provide a good introduction to the methods of comparativists. Also included are paradigms of the phonological systems of ten Semitic languages as well as Coptic and a form of Berber. A bibliography that guides the student into further reading in Semitic linguistics completes the volume.

Author : John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429657825

Get Book

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 : Stefan Weninger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251586

Get Book

The Semitic Languages by Stefan Weninger Pdf

The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.

Author : Patrick R. Bennett
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781575060217

Get Book

Comparative Semitic Linguistics by Patrick R. Bennett Pdf

As the title indicates, this unique resource is a manual on comparative linguistics, with the examples taken exclusively from Semitic languages. It is an innovative volume that recalls the earlier tradition of textbooks of comparative philology, which, however, exclusively treated Indo-European languages. It is suited for students with at least a year of a Semitic language. By far the largest component of the book are the nine wordlists that provide the data to be manipulated by the student. Says reviewer Peter Daniels, the wordlists "constitute a unique resource for all of comparative linguistics--a considerable quantity of uniform data from a host of related languages. They would be useful for any class in comparative linguistics, not just for those interested specifically in Semitic." Scattered throughout the text are 25 exercises based on the wordlists that provide a good introduction to the methods of comparativists. Also included are paradigms of the phonological systems of ten Semitic languages as well as Coptic and a form of Berber. A bibliography that guides the student into further reading in Semitic linguistics completes the volume.

Author : Robert Hetzron
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415057671

Get Book

The Semitic Languages by Robert Hetzron Pdf

The Semitic Languages presents a unique, comprehensive survey of individual languages or language clusters from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. The Semitic family occupies a position of great historical and linguistic significance: the spoken and written languages of the Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arabs spread throughout Asia and northern and central Africa; the Old Semitic civilizations in turn contributed significantly to European culture; and modern Hebrew, modern literary Arabic, Amharic, and Tigrinya have become their nations' official languages. The book is divided into three parts and each chapter presents a self-contained article, written by a recognized expert in the field. * I. General Issues: providing an introduction to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing systems of this language family. * II. Old Semitic Languages * III. Modern Semitic Languages Parts II and III contain structured chapters, which enable the reader to access and compare information easily. These individual descriptions of each language or cluster include phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and dialects. Suggestions are made for the most useful sources of further reading and the work is comprehensively indexed.

Author : David Testen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9004109730

Get Book

Parallels in Semitic Linguistics by David Testen Pdf

Through an examination of the Arabic emphasizing particle "la-" and a set of elements in the other Semitic languages to which it is akin, this study investigates the early Semitic sonorant phonemes and their development in the descendant languages.

Author : Aaron Butts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004300156

Get Book

Semitic Languages in Contact by Aaron Butts Pdf

This volume contains twenty case studies analysing various aspects of language contact involving ancient and modern Semitic languages.

Author : Gideon Goldenberg
Publisher : Magnes Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015043271132

Get Book

Studies in Semitic Linguistics by Gideon Goldenberg Pdf

Collected in this volume are articles published over the last three decades, which deal with various aspects of Semitic languages in general, the structure of Hebrew, history of Arab grammatical tradition, Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic, Syriac syntax, and particularly with Ethiopian languages (Amharic and Old Amharic Gurage, Harari and Comparative Ethiopian). While discussing general, language-specific and comparative issues, special attention is devoted in these studies to syntax, to the examination of linguistic methodology and to the contribution of Semitics to the Science of language.

Author : Gideon Goldenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199644919

Get Book

Semitic Languages by Gideon Goldenberg Pdf

This book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic, among them Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic. It describes their history from ancient times to the present, geographical distribution, writing systems, classification, linguistic features, distinctive characteristics, and typological signicance.

Author : Testen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004348424

Get Book

Parallels in Semitic Linguistics by Testen Pdf

This linguistic study is concerned with the role of the emphasizing particle la- (known as lām al-ta'kīd) in the grammatical traditions of Classical Arabic, as well as with the question of the historical relationship connecting this particle to a set of elements in several other Semitic languages showing comparable forms and functions. Although these particles have hitherto seemed to defy a coherent reconstruction, the very complexity of the data to which they attest proves to provide a key to their interpretation. They represent a critical first step in the refining of our understanding of the history of the Semitic sonorant phonemes.

Author : Retsö
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004348264

Get Book

Diathesis in the Semitic Languages by Retsö Pdf

Preliminary Material /JAN RETSÖ -- ABBREVIATIONS OF TERMS /JAN RETSÖ -- PREFACE /JAN RETSÖ -- INTRODUCTION /JAN RETSÖ -- THE APOPHONIC PASSIVE IN ARABIC /JAN RETSÖ -- THE APOPHONIC PASSIVE MARKER IN SEMITIC /JAN RETSÖ -- THE YUQTAL AS PASSIVE MARKER /JAN RETSÖ -- THE SEMITIC CAUSATIVE CONJUGATION /JAN RETSÖ -- THE CAUSATIVE CONJUGATION IN ARABIC /JAN RETSÖ -- THE IMPERFECT PASSIVE MARKER OF THE G-STEM IN SEMITIC /JAN RETSÖ -- THE OTHER PASSIVE MARKERS IN SEMITIC /JAN RETSÖ -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS /JAN RETSÖ -- APPENDIX 1 /JAN RETSÖ -- APPENDIX 2 /JAN RETSÖ -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /JAN RETSÖ -- GENERAL INDEX /JAN RETSÖ -- INDEX OF FORMS /JAN RETSÖ.

Author : Aaron Hornkohl,Geoffrey Khan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783749379

Get Book

Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions by Aaron Hornkohl,Geoffrey Khan Pdf

This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources representative of a period that stretches from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. A large proportion of them concern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, especially the vocalisation notation systems used to represent them. Also discussed are orthography and the written representation of prosody. Beyond Biblical Hebrew, there are studies concerning Punic, Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic, as well as post-biblical traditions of Hebrew such as piyyuṭ and medieval Hebrew poetry. There were many parallels and interactions between these various language traditions and the volume demonstrates that important insights can be gained from such a wide range of perspectives across different historical periods.

Author : Edward Lipiński
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9042908157

Get Book

Semitic Languages by Edward Lipiński Pdf

The first comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, by H. Zimmern, was published a hundred years ago and the last original work of this kind was issued in Russian in 1972 by B.M. Grande. The present grammar, designed to come out in the centenary of the completion of Zimmern's work, fills thus a gap. Besides, it is based on both classical and modern Semitic languages, it takes new material of these last decades into account, and situates the Semitic languages in the wider context of Afro-Asiatic. The introduction briefly presents the languages in question. The main parts of the work are devoted to phonology, morphology, and syntax, with elaborate charts and diagrams. Then follows a discussion of fundamental questions related to lexicographical analysis. The study is supplemented by a glossary of linguistic terms used in Semitics, by a selective bibliography, by a general index, and by an index of words and forms. The book is the result of twenty-five years of research and teaching in comparative Semitic grammar.

Author : Joseph Shimron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296689

Get Book

Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology by Joseph Shimron Pdf

This book puts together contributions of linguists and psycholinguists whose main interest here is the representation of Semitic words in the mental lexicon of Semitic language speakers. The central topic of the book confronts two views about the morphology of Semitic words. The point of the argument is: Should we see Semitic words’ morphology as “root-based” or “word-based?” The proponents of the root-based approach, present empirical evidence demonstrating that Semitic language speakers are sensitive to the root and the template as the two basic elements (bound morphemes) of Semitic words. Those supporting the word-based approach, present arguments to the effect that Semitic word formation is not based on the merging of roots and templates, but that Semitic words are comprised of word stems and affixes like we find in Indo-European languages. The variety of evidence and arguments for each claim should force the interested readers to reconsider their views on Semitic morphology.

Author : Izre'el
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004659384

Get Book

Studies in Modern Semitic Languages by Izre'el Pdf