Semitic languages in contact / edited by Aaron Michael Butts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butts, Aaron Michael.

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:

1 online resource (453 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Semitic Languages in Contact 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. With contributions from A. Al-Jallad, A. Al-Manaser, D. Appleyard, S. Boyd, Y. Breuer, M. Bulakh, D. Calabro, E. Cohen, R. Contini, C. J. Crisostomo, L. Edzard, H. Hardy, U. Horesh, O. Jastrow, L. Kahn, J. Lam, M. Neishtadt, M. Oren, P. Pagano, A. D. Rubin, L. Sayahi, J.Tubach, J. P. Vita, and T. Zewi.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

A Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order / Ahmad Al-Jallad and Ali Al-Manaser

Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient Contact Features in Ge‘ez and Amharic / David Appleyard

Hebrew Adverbialization, Aramaic Language Contact, and mpny ʾšr in Exodus 19:18 / Samuel Boyd and Humphrey Hardy

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

The Proto-Semitic “Asseverative *la-” and the Innovative isg Prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Languages / Maria Bulakh

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

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

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

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

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

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

Language Contact as Reflected in the Consonant System of Ṭuroyo / Otto Jastrow

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

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

The Lexical Component in the Aramaic Substrate of Palestinian Arabic / Mila Neishtadt

The Classification of Hobyot / Aaron D. Rubin

Expression of Attributive Possession in Tunisian Arabic: The Role of Language Contact / Lotfi Sayahi

Aramaic Loanwords in Gǝʿǝz / Jürgen Tubach

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

Semitic Languages in Contact—Syntactic Changes in the Verbal System and in Verbal Complementation / Tamar Zewi and Mikhal Oren

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004300156

9004300155

OCLC:

912278038

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004300156 DOI