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The Semitic languages / edited by John Huehnergard and Na'ama Pat-El.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge language family seriesEdition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceISBN:
  • 9780429025563
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Semitic languagesDDC classification:
  • 492/.045 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ3021
Contents:
Introduction to the Semitic languages / John Huehnergard and Na'ama Pat-El -- Semitic and Afro-Asiatic / Gene Gragg -- Proto-Semitic / John Huehnergard -- The Semitic language family: a typological perspective / Na'ama Pat-El -- Akkadian / Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee -- Gäʻäz (Classical Ethiopic) / Aaron Michael Butts -- Tigre of Gindaʻ / David L. Elias -- Tigrinya / Maria Bulakh -- Amharic / Lutz Edzard -- Gurage (Muher) / Ronny Meyer -- Mehri / Aaron D. Rubin -- Soqotri / Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh -- Ancient South Arabian / Anne Multhoff -- Safaitic / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- Classical Arabic / Daniel Birnstiel -- Levantine Arabic / Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga -- Egyptian Arabic / Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Jason Schroepfer -- Moroccan Arabic / Mike Turner -- Ugaritic / Josef Tropper and Juan-Pablo Vita -- The Canaanite languages / Aren M. Wilson-Wright -- Pre-modern Hebrew: biblical Hebrew / Aaron D. Hornkohl -- Modern Hebrew / Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor -- Samaritan Aramaic / Christian Stadel -- Modern Western Aramaic / Steven E. Fassberg -- Syriac / Na'ama Pat-El -- Mandaic / C. G. Häberl -- Northeastern neo-Aramaic: the dialect of Alqosh / Eleanor Coghill.
Summary: "The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include: - new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology, - an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afroasiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic, and Ethiopian Semitic - text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation - new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference. This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development"--
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Introduction to the Semitic languages / John Huehnergard and Na'ama Pat-El -- Semitic and Afro-Asiatic / Gene Gragg -- Proto-Semitic / John Huehnergard -- The Semitic language family: a typological perspective / Na'ama Pat-El -- Akkadian / Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee -- Gäʻäz (Classical Ethiopic) / Aaron Michael Butts -- Tigre of Gindaʻ / David L. Elias -- Tigrinya / Maria Bulakh -- Amharic / Lutz Edzard -- Gurage (Muher) / Ronny Meyer -- Mehri / Aaron D. Rubin -- Soqotri / Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh -- Ancient South Arabian / Anne Multhoff -- Safaitic / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- Classical Arabic / Daniel Birnstiel -- Levantine Arabic / Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga -- Egyptian Arabic / Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Jason Schroepfer -- Moroccan Arabic / Mike Turner -- Ugaritic / Josef Tropper and Juan-Pablo Vita -- The Canaanite languages / Aren M. Wilson-Wright -- Pre-modern Hebrew: biblical Hebrew / Aaron D. Hornkohl -- Modern Hebrew / Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor -- Samaritan Aramaic / Christian Stadel -- Modern Western Aramaic / Steven E. Fassberg -- Syriac / Na'ama Pat-El -- Mandaic / C. G. Häberl -- Northeastern neo-Aramaic: the dialect of Alqosh / Eleanor Coghill.

"The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include: - new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology, - an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afroasiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic, and Ethiopian Semitic - text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation - new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference. This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development"--