| Physical description |
pages cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Genetic Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages / Alice Faber -- 2. Scripts of Semitic Languages / Peter T. Daniels -- 3. The Arabic Grammatical Tradition / Jonathan Owens -- 4. The Hebrew Grammatical Tradition / Arie Schippers -- 5. Akkadian / Giorgio Buccellati -- 6. Amorite and Eblaite / Cyrus H. Gordon -- 7. Aramaic / Stephen A. Kaufman -- 8. Ugaritic / Dennis Pardee -- 9. Ancient Hebrew / Richard C. Steiner -- 10. Phoenician and the Eastern Canaanite Languages / Stanislav Segert -- 11. Classical Arabic / Wolfdietrich Fischer -- 12. Sayhadic (Epigraphic South Arabian) / Leonid E. Kogan and Andrey V. Korotayev -- 13. Ge'ez (Ethiopic) / Gene Gragg -- 14. Arabic Dialects and Maltese / Alan S. Kaye and Judith Rosenhouse -- 15. Modern Hebrew / Ruth A. Berman -- 16. The Neo-Aramaic Languages / Otto Jastrow -- 17. The Modern South Arabian Languages / Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle -- 18. Tigrinya / Leonid E. Kogan -- 19. Tigre / Shlomo Raz -- 20. Amharic and Argobba / Grover Hudson. |
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21. Harari / Ewald Wagner -- 22. The Silte Group (East Gurage) / Ernst-August Gutt -- 23. Outer South Ethiopic / Robert Hetzron. |
| Summary |
"The Semitic Languages" presents a unique, comprehensive survey of 23 languages from their origins in antiquity to the present day. The volume includes: an introduction to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing systems; individual descriptions of Old Semitic and Modern Semitic; and an overview of each language followed by detail on phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and dialects. |
| Other author |
Hetzron, Robert.
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| Subject |
Semitic languages -- Grammar.
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| ISBN |
0415057671 (alkaline paper) |
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