Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic Languages : Proceedings of the 7th and 8th Meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holm, Tawny L.

Series:

Languages of the Ancient near East Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semitic philology--Congresses.

Semitic philology.

Semitic languages--Congresses.

Semitic languages.

Genre:

Actes de congres.

Conference papers and proceedings.

proceedings (reports)

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (596 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2026.

Biography/History:

Holm Tawny L. : Tawny Holm is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Among her publications on Aramaic language and literature are Of Courtiers and Kings: The Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Story-Collections and Aramaic Literary Texts, the former also published by Eisenbrauns. Monferrer-Sala Juan Pedro: Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala is Professor of Arabic at the University of Cordoba. His publications include Redefining History on Pre-Islamic Accounts: The Arabic Recension of the Martyrs of Najran, Eastern Crossroads: Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy, and The Arabic Bible from Late Antiquity: The Hexateuch from the Syro-Hexapla. Tawny Holm is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Among her publications on Aramaic language and literature are Of Courtiers and Kings: The Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Story-Collections and Aramaic Literary Texts, the former also published by Eisenbrauns. Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala is Professor of Arabic at the University of Cordoba. His publications include Redefining History on Pre-Islamic Accounts: The Arabic Recension of the Martyrs of Najran, Eastern Crossroads: Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy, and The Arabic Bible from Late Antiquity: The Hexateuch from the Syro-Hexapla.

Summary:

"A collection of essays presenting linguistic and philological studies on individual Semitic languages, the Semitic language family, and its Afroasiatic context. Drawn from conferences in Madrid (2016) and Córdoba (2019), the volume offers perspectives on languages including Akkadian, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Ethiopic, Berber, and Chadic"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Akkadian and the History of Aspectual/Temporal Categories in Semitic Languages

Chapter 2: La place de l'akkadien, de l'arabe et de l'hébreudans les études sémitiques comparées

Chapter 3: Direct Lexical Borrowing from Akkadian into Arabic

Chapter 4: Archaism Versus Innovation :The Hybrid Nature of Akkadian

Chapter 5: Semitic Perfects: A Comparison of Akkadian and Aramaic, Part 1

Chapter 6: Ritual Royal Hunt Among the Semites, West and East : Fertility and Kingship Myth and Ritual

Chapter 7: It Was and It Was Not: On the History and Functional Yield of Case Markers in Semitic Morphosyntax

Chapter 8: Akkadian Data as a Major Component of the Proto-Semitic Lexicon

Chapter 9: Close Cousins : Aramaic and Syriac Cognatesto Some Akkadian Lexical Items

Chapter 10: Adopting a Writing System : The Cases of Tell Fekheriye and of the Latino- Punic Inscriptions

Chapter 11: French Loanwords Contained in the Book Mawsūʿat al-ʿāmmiyya as- sūriyya: Kurrāsaluġawiyya naqdiyya fī t- tafṣīḥ wa- t- taʾṣīlwa-l-muwallad wa- d- daḫīl

Chaper 12: Western Aramaic Elements in Papyrus Amherst 63 ,the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script

Chapter 13: Comparing Neo- Hebrew and Andalusi Arabic with Biblical Hebrew in Kitāb almustalḥaq by Ibn Ǧanāḥ (Tenth-Eleventh Centuries)

Chapter 14: Notulæ botanicæ semiticæ: Some Syriac Phytonyms Used in the Pešīṭtō-Translation and Botanical Issues

Chapter 15: The Ugaritic Alphabetic Vocabulary of Metallurgy

Chapter 16: Some External Cognates to Ugaritic- Canaanite/-Akkadian, Northwest Semitic Isoglosses

Chapter 17: Ugaritic Composites or Compounds Within Common Semitic

Chapter 18: Ḥassāniyya and Zanāga in Contact : The Loanwords from Zanāga

Chapter 19: Development of Tense/Aspect in Arabic : Continuity and Innovation.

Chapter 20: The Prefix Conjugation of the Causative Stem in Semitic

Chapter 21: Dialectology and Diachrony :The Case of Andalusi Arabic

Chapter 22: Indirect Predicalization Across Time and Languages

Chapter 23: Searching for Incompatible Consonant Pairs in Early Medieval Hebrew Lexicography

Chapter 24: Aramaic Traces, and Some Hebrew Interferences,in a Fragmentary Andalusi Arabic Version of the Gospel of Mark Rendered from Latin (Tenth Century CE)

Chapter 25: Drawing Parallels Between the Verbal Morphologies of Aramaic and Dialectal Arabic

Chapter 26: The Emergence of Syntactic Properties of Verbs: Theory and Methodology

Index.

Notes:

"The present volume contains a substantial number of the papers that were presented and discussed at the two meetings of the "International Association for Comparative Semitics" (IACS) held in 2016 in Madrid and 2019 in Córdoba"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-64602-340-4

1-64602-341-2

9781646023400

OCLC:

1581931031