The Semitic Languages

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John Huehnergard, Na’ama Pat-El
Routledge, Feb 18, 2019 - Foreign Language Study - 772 pages

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 the following:

• new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology

• an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, 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.

 

Selected pages

Contents

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS 1 Introduction to the Semitic languages and their history John Huehnergard and Naama PaiEl
1
Semitic and AfroAsiatic Gene Gragg
22
ProtoSemitic John Huehnergard
49
a typological perspective Naama PatEl
80
LANGUAGE CHAPTERS 5 Akkadian Rebecca HasselbachAndee
95
Gǝfəz Classical Ethiopic Aaron Michael Butts
117
Tigre of Gindas David L Elias
145
Tigrinya Maria Bulakh
174
Levantine Arabic Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga
403
Egyptian Arabic Thomas LeddyCecere and Jason Schroepfer
433
Moroccan Arabic Mike Turner
458
CONTENTS 19 Ugaritic Josef Tropper and JuanPablo Vita
482
The Canaanite languages Aren M WilsonWright
509
Biblical Hebrew Aaron D Hornkohl
533
Modern Hebrew Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor
571
Samaritan Aramaic Christian Stadel
611

Amharic Lutz Edzard
202
Gurage Muher Ronny Meyer
227
Mehri Aaron D Rubin
257
Soqotri Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh
280
Ancient South Arabian Anne Multhoff
321
Safaitic Ahmad AlJallad
342
Classical Arabic Daniel Birnstiel
367
Modern Western Aramaic Steven E Fassberg
632
Syriac Naama PatEl
653
Mandaic C G Haber
679
the dialect of Alqosh Eleanor Coghill
711
Languages index
749
Subject index
752
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John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El
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John Huehnergard,Na'ama Pat-El
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John Huehnergard,Na'ama Pat-El
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Common terms and phrases

2MSG 3MPL 3MSG 3rd person active participle adjectives adverbs Afro-Asiatic Akkadian Al-Jallad Amharic attested base basic Biblical Hebrew Brill Bulakh Canaanite languages Chapter Classical Arabic clitic consonantal consonants construct copula CSOL Cushitic derived dialects dual edited Egyptian Ethio-Semitic example feminine forms fricative function G stem gemination gender and number genitive Geoffrey Khan Gəfəz glottal Grammar Gurage Harrassowitz head noun Huehnergard inflected inscriptions interrogative Kogan Language and Linguistics Leiden Levantine Arabic lexical lexicon Mandaic marked marker masculine Mehri Modern Hebrew Modern South Arabian morpheme morphology negation Neo-Aramaic nominal object particle passive Pat-El pattern pharyngealized Phoenician phonemes phonology plural predicate prefix conjugation prepositions pronominal suffixes Proto-Semitic reflexive relative clause root Sabaic Safaitic Samaritan Aramaic script semantic Semitic languages singular Soqotri suffix conjugation syllable syntax Syriac Table tense texts Tigre Tigrinya Ugaritic verb verbal stem Weninger West Semitic Wiesbaden word order

About the author (2019)

John Huehnergard is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and former Professor of Semitic Philology at Harvard University.

Na‘ama Pat-El is Associate Professor of Comparative Semitic Linguistics in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Semitic Languages
Routledge Language Family Series
EditorsJohn Huehnergard, Na’ama Pat-El
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2019
ISBN042965538X, 9780429655388
Length772 pages
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