The Morphophonological Development Of The Classical Aramaic Verb

Author : Joseph L. Malone
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 689 pages
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Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646020171

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The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb by Joseph L. Malone Pdf

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic from its initial appearance early in the first millennium B.C.E. until the second millennium C.E. Aramaic, a subfamily of Semitic, is closely related to Hebrew and the other Canaanite languages; together, the two subfamilies of Aramaic and Canaanite constitute the northwest branch of the Semitic phylum. In this study, Joseph L. Malone focuses on thirteen dialects of Aramaic, chosen from a candidate list of approximately twice that number. The specific varieties of Aramaic examined here are chosen to provide an optimal chronological and geographical range. In a similar vein, the finite verb serves as the subject of this study, based on the assumption that a thorough treatment of the verb will asymptomatically involve most of the patterns and processes that hold for the grammar as a whole. The tools of this study are drawn from standard generative linguistics, though care is taken to explicate these in more traditional terms where it is deemed necessary. This book is essential reading for linguists who study the Semitic language families, and in particular those interested in Northwest Semitic languages.

Author : Joseph L. Malone
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646020157

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The Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb by Joseph L. Malone Pdf

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic from its initial appearance early in the first millennium B.C.E. until the second millennium C.E. Aramaic, a subfamily of Semitic, is closely related to Hebrew and the other Canaanite languages; together, the two subfamilies of Aramaic and Canaanite constitute the northwest branch of the Semitic phylum. In this study, Joseph L. Malone focuses on thirteen dialects of Aramaic, chosen from a candidate list of approximately twice that number. The specific varieties of Aramaic examined here are chosen to provide an optimal chronological and geographical range. In a similar vein, the finite verb serves as the subject of this study, based on the assumption that a thorough treatment of the verb will asymptomatically involve most of the patterns and processes that hold for the grammar as a whole. The tools of this study are drawn from standard generative linguistics, though care is taken to explicate these in more traditional terms where it is deemed necessary. This book is essential reading for linguists who study the Semitic language families, and in particular those interested in Northwest Semitic languages.

Author : Ulf Bergström
Publisher : PSU Department of English
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646021888

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Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms by Ulf Bergström Pdf

This book provides a new explanation for what has long been a challenge for scholars of Biblical Hebrew: how to understand the expression of verbal tense and aspect. Working from a representative text corpus, combined with database queries of specific usages and surveys of examples discussed in the scholarly literature, Ulf Bergström gives a comprehensive overview of the semantic meanings of the verbal forms, along with a significant sample of the variation of pragmatically inferred tense, aspect, or modality (TAM) meanings. Bergström applies diachronic typology and a redefined concept of aspect to demonstrate that Biblical Hebrew verbal forms have basic aspectual and derived temporal meanings and that communicative appeal, the action-triggering function of language, affects verbal semantics and promotes the diversification of tense meanings. Bergström’s overarching explanation of the semantic development of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system is an important contribution to the study of the evolution of the verbal system and meanings of individual verbs in the Hebrew Bible. Accessibly written and structured for seminar use, Bergström’s study brings new perspectives to a debate that, in many ways, had reached a stalemate, and it challenges scholars working with TAM and the Biblical Hebrew verb to revisit their theoretical premises. Advanced students and scholars of Biblical Hebrew and other Semitic languages will find the study thought provoking, and linguists will appreciate its contributions to linguistic theory and typology.

Author : Grace Jeongyeon Park
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781646022502

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FOCUS CONSTRUCTION WITH KI IM IN BIBLICAL HEBREW;FOCUS CONSTRUCTION WITH KI IM IN BIBLICAL HEBREW by Grace Jeongyeon Park Pdf

Author : Robert D. Hoberman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aramaic language
ISBN : UCSD:31822005292677

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The Syntax and Semantics of Verb Morphology in Modern Aramaic by Robert D. Hoberman Pdf

Author : Alger F. Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015004748672

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A Short Grammar of Biblical Aramaic by Alger F. Johns Pdf

This standard grammar book of biblical Aramaic, used by students at many seminaries and universities, is the only one to include graded exercises at the close of each of its twenty lessons.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015016312327

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aaron Hornkohl,Geoffrey Khan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783749379

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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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christianity
ISBN : UVA:X006133641

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Religious and Theological Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Olga Tribulato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107029316

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Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily by Olga Tribulato Pdf

A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.

Author : Jonathan David Bobaljik
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262304597

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Universals in Comparative Morphology by Jonathan David Bobaljik Pdf

An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonologically unrelated stem, as in good-better-best) there emerge strikingly robust patterns, virtually exceptionless generalizations across languages. Jonathan David Bobaljik describes the systematicity in suppletion, and argues that at least five generalizations are solid contenders for the status of linguistic universals. The major topics discussed include suppletion, comparative and superlative formation, deadjectival verbs, and lexical decomposition. Bobaljik's primary focus is on morphological theory, but his argument also aims to integrate evidence from a variety of subfields into a coherent whole. In the course of his analysis, Bobaljik argues that the assumptions needed bear on choices among theoretical frameworks and that the framework of Distributed Morphology has the right architecture to support the account. In addition to the theoretical implications of the generalizations, Bobaljik suggests that the striking patterns of regularity in what otherwise appears to be the most irregular of linguistic domains provide compelling evidence for Universal Grammar. The book strikes a unique balance between empirical breadth and theoretical detail. The phenomenon that is the main focus of the argument, suppletion in adjectival gradation, is rare enough that Bobaljik is able to present an essentially comprehensive description of the facts; at the same time, it is common enough to offer sufficient variation to explore the question of universals over a significant dataset of more than three hundred languages.

Author : Jonathan Owens
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780191537462

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A Linguistic History of Arabic by Jonathan Owens Pdf

A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the traditional conceptualization of an old, Classical language evolving into the contemporary Neo-Arabic dialects. Professor Owens combines established comparative linguistic methodology with a careful reading of the classical Arabic sources, such as the grammatical and exegetical traditions. He arrives at a richer and more complex picture of early Arabic language history than is current today and in doing so establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a concise, case by case basis, making it accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists.

Author : Koert van Bekkum,Gert Kwakkel,Wolter H. Rose
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Leonid Efimovich Kogan
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1575061236

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Memoriae Igor M. Diakonoff by Leonid Efimovich Kogan Pdf

The year 2005 marked the 90th anniversary of the birth of Igor Diakonoff (1915-1999). A classical Semitist in educational background, Diakonoff was most influential in his principal field of research--Assyriology. However, Diakonoff was also broadly interested in various aspects of ancient Near Eastern studies, notably Mesopotamian history, Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics, and biblical studies. Although not major domains of Diakonoff's scholarship, Biblical Hebrew and the ancient Near Eastern background of the Old Testament were areas of expertise that made him one of the leading figures of biblical studies in Russia. For several decades Diakonoff was a "live bridge" between ancient Near Eastern and Semitic scholars working in Russia and the international scholarly community. Fittingly, this volume of Babel & Bibel in memory of Diakonoff contains essays, short notes, and reviews by scholars from the Russian and international scholarly community on topics in ancient Near Eastern, Semitic and Afroasiatic, and Old Testament studies. The contributors include A. Archi, G. F. del Monte, G. del Olmo Lete, J.-M. Durand, B. R. Foster, P. Franzaroli, S. Loesov, J. Marzahn, J. Pasquali, W. Sommerfeld, K. Markina, N. Roudik, M. P. Streck, M. V. Tonietti, W. R. Garr, K. Jongeling, M. Seleznev, V. Blazek, M. Bulakh, T. Frolova, J. Huehnergard, R. M. Kerr, L. Kogan, A. Militarev, J. Sanmartin, G. Takacs, A. Zaborski, N. V. Koslova, S. Loesov, and L. M. Dreyer.

Author : Pierre Bordreuil,Dennis Pardee
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066523

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A Manual of Ugaritic by Pierre Bordreuil,Dennis Pardee Pdf

Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee are two of the best-known scholars doing research on the language and texts of the ancient city of Ugarit (modern Tell Ras Shamra). This grammar was first published in French in 2004 in two volumes; and Eisenbrauns is pleased to make it available now in a corrected and updated version, in one volume, with significant enhancements. In addition to including all of the information present in the French edition, this English edition includes a CD with a complete, hyperlinked PDF version of the grammar. The book includes a historical introduction to the texts and language, the book includes a sketch of the grammar of Ugaritic, a bibliography, facsimiles (hand-copies) of a number of texts, and a glossary and text concordance—in short, everything that a student needs for entrée into the language. On the CD, in addition to the PDF, color photos of all of the texts included in the book are provided. The hyperlinks to the PDF enable the reader to move easily from the discussion in the grammar to a copy of a text to the color photo of the text and back again, making the material much more accessible and usable for students and researchers. Pierre Bordreuil inaugurated a chair in Ugaritic at the écoles des langues et civilisations orientales at the Institut catholique de Paris. Dennis Pardee teaches in the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.