ROUTLEDGE LANGUAGE FAMILY SERIES

Opis produktu

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 presentday forms.This second edition has been fully revised with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following:ó new introductory chapters on ProtoSemitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typologyó an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of AfroAsiatic and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic Aramaic and Ethiopian Semiticó text samples of each individual language transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet with standard linguistic wordbyword glossing as well as translationó 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.Introductory Chapters1. Introduction to the Semitic Languages: John Huehnergard & Naśama PatEl2. Semitic and AfroAsiatic: Gene Gragg3. ProtoSemitic: John Huehnergard4. The Semitic Language Family: A Typological Perspective: Naśama PatElLanguage Chapters5. Akkadian: Rebecca HasselbachAndee6. GŁŁz (Classical Ethiopic): Aaron Michael Butts7. Tigre of Ginda: David L. Elias8. Tigrinya: Maria Bulakh9. Amharic: Lutz Edzard10. Gurage (Muher): Ronny Meyer11. Mehri: Aaron D. Rubin12. Soqotri: Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh13. Ancient South Arabian: Anne Multhoff14. Safaitic: Ahmad AlJallad15. Classical Arabic: Daniel Birnstiel16. Levantine Arabic: Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga17. Egyptian Arabic: Thomas LeddyCecere and Jason Schroepfer18. Moroccan Arabic: Mike Turner19. Ugaritic: Josef Tropper and JuanPablo Vita20. The Canaanite Languages: Aren M. WilsonWright21. Premodern Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew: Aaron D. Hornkohl22. Modern Hebrew: Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor23. Samaritan Aramaic: Christian Stadel24. Modern Western Aramaic: Steven E. Fassberg25. Syriac: Naśama PatEl26. Mandaic: C. G. HĄberl27. Northeastern NeoAramaic: the Dialect of Alqosh: Eleanor CoghillJohn 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.Naśama PatEl is Associate Professor of Comparative Semitic Linguistics in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Data Publikacji: 2019-03-26
Wymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 1260 gr