Semitic languages in contact / edited by Aaron Michael Butts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butts, Aaron Michael, editor.

Series:

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 82.

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 82

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semitic languages--Grammar, Comparative.

Semitic languages.

Semitic languages--Grammar.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 427 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

This book contains twenty case studies analysing various contact situations involving Semitic languages. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging to the Modern Arabic, Modern South Arabian, Neo-Aramaic, and Neo-Ethiopian branches of the Semitic family. The topics discussed include writing systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The approaches range from traditional philology to more theoretically-driven linguistics. These diverse studies are united by the theme of language contact. Thus, the volume aims to provide the status quaestionis of the study of language contact among the Semitic languages.

Contents:

A Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order / Ahmad Al-Jallad Al-Jallad, Ahmad, Alt Al-Manaser Al-Manaser, Alt 1

Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient Contact Features in Ge'ez and Amharic / David Appleyard Appleyard, David 16

Hebrew Adverbialization, Aramaic Language Contact, and mpny 'srin Exodus 19:18 / Samuel Boyd Boyd, Samuel, Humphrey Hardy Hardy, Humphrey 33

The Distribution of Declined Participles in Aramaic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Aramaic Translations / Yochanan Breuer Breuer, Yochanan 52

The Proto-Semitic "Asseverative *la-" and the Innovative is G Prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Languages / Maria Bulakh Bulakh, Maria 68

Egyptianizing Features in Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions from Egypt / David Calabro Calabro, David 97

Head-Marking in Neo-Aramaic Genitive Constructions and the ezafe Construction in Kurdish / Eran Cohen Cohen, Eran 114

Notes on Foreign Words in Hatran Aramaic / Riccardo Contini Contini, Riccardo, Paola Pagano Pagano, Paola 126

Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE / C. Jay Crisostomo Crisostomo, C. Jay 158

Inner-Semitic Loans and Lexical Doublets vs. Genetically Related Cognates / Lutz Edzard Edzard, Lutz 181

Structural Change in Urban Palestinian Arabic Induced by Contact with Modern Hebrew / Uri Horesh Horesh, Uri 198

Language Contact as Reflected in the Consonant System of Turoyo / Otto Jastrow Jastrow, Otto 234

Lexical Borrowings in the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale / Lily Kahn Kahn, Lily 251

Possible Ugaritic Influences on the Human of Ras Shamra-Ugarit in Alphabetic Script / Joseph Lam Lam, Joseph 267

The Lexical Component in the Aramaic Substrate of Palestinian

Arabic / Mila Neishtadt Neishtadt, Mila 280

The Classification of Hobyot / Aaron D. Rubin Rubin, Aaron D. 311

Expression of Attributive Possession in Txinisian Arabic: The Role of Language Contact / Lotfi Sayahi Sayahi, Lotfi 333

Aramaic Loanwords in Gǝʿǝz / Jürgen Tubach Tubach, Jürgen 348

Language Contact between Akkadian and Northwest Semitic Languages in Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age / Juan-Pablo Vita Vita, Juan-Pablo 375

Semitic Languages in Contact-Syntactic Changes in the Verbal System and in Verbal Complementation / Tamar Zewi Zewi, Tamar, Mikhal Oren Oren, Mikhal 405.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004300149

9004300147

OCLC:

912278038

Publisher Number:

40025457270