Germania Semitica / Hanna Noel Aziz, Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Noel Aziz, Hanna, editor.

Vennemann, Theo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (765 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Germania Semitica explores prehistoric language contact in general, and attempts to identify the languages involved in shaping Germanic in particular. The book deals with a topic outside the scope of other disciplines concerned with prehistory, such as archaeology and genetics, drawing its conclusions from the linguistic evidence alone, relying on language typology and areal probability. The data for reconstruction comes from Germanic syntax, phonology, etymology, religious loan names, and the writing system, more precisely from word order, syntactic constructions, word formation, irregularities in phonological form, lexical peculiarities, and the structure and rules of the Germanic runic alphabet. It is demonstrated that common descent is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for reconstruction. Instead, lexical and structural parallels between Germanic and Semitic languages are explored and interpreted in the framework of modern language contact theory.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101064

ISBN:

9783110301090