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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465548703321

Titolo

Semitic languages [[electronic resource] ] : an international handbook / / edited by Stefan Weninger ; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

3-11-025158-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1297 p.)

Collana

Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, , 1861-5090 ; ; Bd. 36

Altri autori (Persone)

WeningerStefan

KhanGeoffrey

StreckMichael P

WatsonJanet C. E

Disciplina

492

Soggetti

Semitic languages - History

Semitic languages - Grammar

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1. Introduction / Weninger, Stefan / Khan, Geoffrey / Streck, Michael P. / Watson, Janet C. E. -- I. Semitic in an Afroasiatic Context -- 2. Semitic-Egyptian Relations / Takács, Gábor -- 3. Semitic-Berber Relations / Brugnatelli, Vermondo -- 4. Semitic-Chadic Relations / Wolff, H. Ekkehard -- 5. Semitic-Cushitic/Omotic Relations / Appleyard, David L. -- II. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic and Models of Classification -- 6. Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology / Kogan, Leonid -- 7. Reconstructive Morphology / Weninger, Stefan -- 8. Proto-Semitic Lexicon / Kogan, Leonid -- 9. Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification of the Semitic Languages / Huehnergard, John / Rubin, Aaron D. -- III. The Semitic Languages and Dialects I: Their Typology -- 10. Morphological Typology of Semitic / Gensler, Orin D. -- 11. Syntactic Typology of Semitic / Waltisberg, Michael -- IV. The Semitic Languages and Dialects II: East Semitic -- 12. Akkadian in General / Kouwenberg, Bert -- 13. Eblaite and Old Akkadian / Streck, Michael P. -- 14. Babylonian and



Assyrian / Streck, Michael P. -- 15. Akkadian and Sumerian Language Contact / Zólyomi, Gábor -- 16. Akkadian as a Diplomatic Language / Soldt, Wilfred H. van -- 17. Akkadian and Aramaic Language Contact / Streck, Michael P. -- V. The Semitic Languages and Dialects III: North-West Semitic -- 18. Northwest Semitic in General / Gzella, Holger -- 19. Amorite / Streck, Michel P. -- 20. Ugaritic / Pardee, Dennis -- 21. Phoenician and Punic / Röllig, Wolfgang -- 22. Biblical Hebrew / Edzard, Lutz -- 23. Mishnaic Hebrew / Bar-Asher, Moshe -- 24. Modern Hebrew / Schwarzwald, Ora (Rodrigue) -- 25. Hebrew as the Language of Judaism / Sáenz-Badillos, Angel -- 26. The Re-Emergence of Hebrew as a National Language / Reshef, Yael -- 27. Old Aramaic / Fales, Frederick Mario -- 28. Imperial Aramaic / Gzella, Holger -- 29. Imperial Aramaic as an Administrative Language of the Achaemenid Period / Folmer, Margaretha -- 30. Late Imperial Aramaic / Gzella, Holger -- 31. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic / Sokoloff, Michael -- 32. Samaritan Aramaic / Tal, Abraham -- 33. Christian Palestinian Aramaic / Morgenstern, Matthew -- 34. Syriac / Healey, John F. -- 35. Syriac as the Language of Eastern Christianity / Chatonnet, Françoise Briquel -- 36. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic / Sokoloff, Michael -- 37. Mandaic / Burtea, Bogdan -- 38. Western Neo-Aramaic / Arnold, Werner -- 39. Ṭuroyo and Mlaḥsô / Jastrow, Otto -- 40. North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic / Khan, Geoffrey -- 41. Neo-Mandaic / Häberl, Charles G. -- 42. Language Contact between Aramaic Dialects and Iranian / Kapeliuk, Olga -- 43. Aramaic-Arabic Language Contact / Weninger, Stefan -- VI. The Semitic Languages and Dialects IV: Languages of the Arabian Peninsula -- 44. Ancient North Arabian / Hayajneh, Hani -- 45. Classical Arabic / Retsö,, Jan -- 46. Arabic as the Language of Islam / Haleem, Muhammad A. S. Abdel -- 47. Middle Arabic / Khan, Geoffrey -- 48. Creating a Modern Standard Language from Medieval Tradition: The Nahḍa and the Arabic Academies / Glaß, Dagmar -- 49. Modern Standard Arabic / Ryding, Karin C. -- 50. Arabic Dialects (general article) / Watson, Janet C.E. -- 51. Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula / Watson, Janet C. E. -- 52. Arabic Dialects of Mesopotamia / Talay, Shabo -- 53. Dialects of the Levant / Naïm, Samia -- 54. Dialects of Egypt and Sudan / Dickins, James -- 55. Arabic in the North African Region / Pereira, Christophe -- 56. Arabic Sociolinguistics / Owens, Jonathan -- 57. Arabic Urban Vernaculars / Miller, Catherine -- 58. Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles / Luffin, Xavier -- 59. Berber and Arabic Language Contact / Tilmatine, Mohand -- 60. Arabic-Persian Language Contact / Gazsi, Dénes -- 61. Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages / Edzard, Lutz -- 62. Maltese as a National Language / Borg, Albert -- 63. Ancient South Arabian / Stein, Peter -- 64. Modern South Arabian / Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude -- VII. The Semitic Languages and Dialects V: Ethio-Semitic Languages -- 65. Ethio-Semitic in General / Weninger, Stefan -- 66. Old Ethiopic / Weninger, Stefan -- 67. Tigre / Morin, Didier -- 68. Tigrinya / Voigt, Rainer -- 69. Tigrinya as National Language of Eritrea and Tigray / Voigt, Rainer -- 70. Amharic / Meyer, Ronny -- 71. The Role of Amharic as a National Language and an African lingua franca / Meyer, Ronny -- 72. Gurage / Meyer, Ronny -- 73. Harari / Wagner, Ewald -- 74. Ethiosemitic-Cushitic Language Contact / Crass, Joachim / Meyer, Ronny -- Terminological index

Sommario/riassunto

The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description



of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestati