Syria, Mesopotamia, and the comparative study of Semitic languages : proceedings of the 7th and 8th meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics / edited by Tawny Holm and Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Association for Comparative Semitics. Meeting (7th : 2016 : Madrid, Spain), Author.

Contributor:

Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro, editor.

Holm, Tawny, 1966- editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE.

Languages of the ancient near east series ; 13

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Semitic philology--Congresses.

Semitic philology.

Semitic languages--Congresses.

Semitic languages.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages).

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, 2026.

University Park, Pennsylvania Eisenbrauns, 2026

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:

Akkadian and the history of aspectual/temporal categories in Semitic languages / Vit Bubenik

La place de l’akkadien, de l’arabe et de l’hébreu dans les études sémitiques comparées / Philippe Cassuto and Victor Porkhomovsky

Direct lexical borrowing from Akkadian into Arabic / Federico Corriente

Archaism versus innovation : the hybrid nature of Akkadian / Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee

Semitic perfects : a comparison of Akkadian and Aramaic, part 1 / Sergey Loesov and Ilya Arkhipov

Ritual royal hunt among the Semites, West and East : fertility and kingship myth ritual / Gregorio del Olmo Lete

On the history and functional yield of case markers in Semitic morphosyntax / Gonzalo Rubio

Akkadian data as a major component of the Proto-Semitic lexicon / Olga Stolbova

Close cousins : Aramaic and Syriac cognates to some Akkadian lexical items / Wilfred G. E. Watson

Adopting a writing system : the cases of Tell Fekheriye and of the Latino-Punic inscriptions / Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo

French loanwords contained in the book Mawsūʿat al-ʿāmmiyya as-sūriyya : kurrāsa luġawiyya naqdiyya fī t-tafṣīḥ wa-t-taʾṣīl wa-l-muwallad wa-d-daḫīl / Ahmed Salem Ould Mohamed Baba

Western Aramaic elements in Papyrus Amherst 63, the Aramaic text in Demotic script / Tawny L. Holm

Comparing Neo-Hebrew and Andalusi Arabic with Biblical Hebrew in Kitāb almustalḥaq by Ibn Ğanāḥ (tenth–eleventh centuries) / José Martínez Delgado

Notulæ botanicæ semiticæ : some Syriac phytonyms used in the Pešiṭtō—translation and botanical issues / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

The vocabulary of metallurgy in Ugarit / Gregorio del Olmo Lete

Some external cognates to Ugaritic-Canaanite/-Akkadian : Northwest Semitic isoglosses / Olga Stolbova

Ugaritic composites or compounds within Common Semitic / Wilfred G. E. Watson

Ḥassāniyya and Zanāga in contact : the loanwords from Zanāga / Ahmed Salem Ould Mohamed Baba

Development of tense/aspect in Arabic : continuity and innovation / Vit Bubenik

The prefix conjugation of the causative stem in Semitic / Mariah Bulakh

Dialectology and diachrony : the case of Andalusi Arabic / Federico Corriente

Indirect predicalization across time and languages / Olga Kapeliuk

Searching for incompatible consonant pairs in early medieval Hebrew lexicography / José Martínez Delgado

Aramaic traces, and some Hebrew interferences, in a fragmentary Andalusi Arabic version of the Gospel of Mark rendered from Latin (tenth century CE) / Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

Drawing parallels between the verbal morphologies of Aramaic and dialectal Arabic / Francisco del Río Sánchez

The emergence of syntactic properties of verbs : theory and methodology / Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay, and Marielle Butters

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.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: International Association for Comparative Semitics. Syria, Mesopotamia, and the comparative study of Semitic languages.

ISBN:

9781646023400

1646023404

Publisher Number:

90104395357

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