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An outline of the grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions / By Ahmad Al-Jallad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Al-Jallad, Ahmad.
- Series:
- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 80.
- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 80
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inscriptions, Safaitic.
- Safaliba language--Grammar.
- Safaliba language.
- Inscriptions--Arabian Peninsula.
- Inscriptions.
- Arabian Peninsula--Antiquities.
- Arabian Peninsula.
- Arabian Peninsula--Languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 pages, 3 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), photographs.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Text in English, some text in Old Arabic.
- Summary:
- This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary. The grammar is based on a corpus of 33,000 Safaitic inscriptions.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Script and Orthography
- Phonology and Phonetics
- Nominal Morphology
- The Verb
- Adjectives and Agreement
- Prepositions
- Adverbs
- Vocative Particles
- Other Particles
- Conjunctions
- Verbless Clauses
- Verbal Clauses
- The Syntax of Adverbs
- Topicalization
- Syntax of the Infinitive
- Relative and Subordinate Clauses
- Circumstantial Clauses
- Coordination
- Conditional Clauses
- Other Constructions
- Compositional Formulae
- Appendix of Inscriptions
- Dictionary
- Plates
- Bibliography
- Index of Tribes.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004289826
- 9004289828
- OCLC:
- 900794098
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004289826 DOI
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