The Semitic languages / edited by John Huehnergard and Na'ama Pat-El.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huehnergard, John, editor.

Pat-El, Na'ama, editor.

Series:

Routledge language family series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semitic languages--Grammar.

Semitic languages.

Physical Description:

xviii, 754 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"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: - new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology, - an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afroasiatic, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction to the Semitic languages / John Huehnergard & Na'ama Pat-El

Semitic and Afro-Asiatic / Gene Gragg

Proto-Semitic / John Huehnergard

The Semitic language family: a typological perspective / Na'ama Pat-El

Akkadian / Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee

Gäʻäz (Classical Ethiopic) / Aaron Michael Butts

Tigre of Gindaʻ / David L. Elias

Tigrinya / Maria Bulakh

Amharic / Lutz Edzard

Gurage (Muher) / Ronny Meyer

Mehri / Aaron D. Rubin

Soqotri / Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh

Ancient South Arabian / Anne Multhoff

Safaitic / Ahmad Al-Jallad

Classical Arabic / Daniel Birnstiel

Levantine Arabic / Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga

Egyptian Arabic / Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Jason Schroepfer

Moroccan Arabic / Mike Turner

Ugaritic / Josef Tropper and Juan-Pablo Vita

The Canaanite languages / Aren M. Wilson-Wright

Pre-modern Hebrew: biblical Hebrew / Aaron D. Hornkohl

Modern Hebrew / Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor

Samaritan Aramaic / Christian Stadel

Modern Western Aramaic / Steven E. Fassberg

Syriac / Na'ama Pat-El

Mandaic / C. G. Häberl

Northeastern neo-Aramaic: the dialect of Alqosh / Eleanor Coghill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780415731959

041573195X

OCLC:

1060182406

Publisher Number:

99980479572