Semitic languages in contact / edited by Aaron Michael Butts.

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Butts, Aaron Michael [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 82.Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9004300155
9789004300156

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492/.045 23

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PJ3021 .S48 2015

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Contents:

Preface; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Contributors; A Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order; Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient Contact Features in Ge'ez and Amharic; Hebrew Adverbialization, Aramaic Language Contact, and mpny šr in Exodus 19:18; The Distribution of Declined Participles in Aramaic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Aramaic Translations; The Proto-Semitic "Asseverative *la-" and the Innovative 1SG Prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Languages; Egyptianizing Features in Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions from Egypt.

Head-Marking in Neo-Aramaic Genitive Constructions and the ezafe Construction in KurdishNotes on Foreign Words in Hatran Aramaic; Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE; Inner-Semitic Loans and Lexical Doublets vs. Genetically Related Cognates; Structural Change in Urban Palestinian Arabic Induced by Contact with Modern Hebrew; Language Contact as Reflected in the Consonant System of Ṭuroyo; Lexical Borrowings in the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale.

Summary: This book contains twenty case studies analysing various contact situations involving Semitic languages. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging to the Modern Arabic, Modern South Arabian, Neo-Aramaic, and Neo-Ethiopian branches of the Semitic family. The topics discussed include writing systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The approaches range from traditional philology to more theoretically-driven linguistics. These diverse studies are united by the theme of language contact. Thus, the volume aims to provide the status quaestionis of the study of language contact among the Semitic languages.

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This book contains twenty case studies analysing various contact situations involving Semitic languages. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging to the Modern Arabic, Modern South Arabian, Neo-Aramaic, and Neo-Ethiopian branches of the Semitic family. The topics discussed include writing systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The approaches range from traditional philology to more theoretically-driven linguistics. These diverse studies are united by the theme of language contact. Thus, the volume aims to provide the status quaestionis of the study of language contact among the Semitic languages.

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