Weninger The Semitic Languages

An International Handbook
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025158-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 36, 1296 Seiten

Reihe: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK)ISSN

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, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.

Zielgruppe

Libraries and Academic Institutes, Researchers who are interested in Linguistics and Semitics in General, but also Arabic Languages, Africanistic Studies, Egyptology, but also scholars who are interested in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Studies of the Old Testament, Jewish Culture and History and Judaism in General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weninger, Stefan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Khan, Geoffrey

Streck, Michael P.

Watson, Janet C. E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;6
2;Contents;8
3;1. Introduction;12
4;I. Semitic in an Afroasiatic Context;18
4.1;2. Semitic-Egyptian Relations;18
4.2;3. Semitic-Berber Relations;29
4.3;4. Semitic-Chadic Relations;38
4.4;5. Semitic-Cushitic/Omotic Relations;49
5;II. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic and Models of Classification;65
5.1;6. Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology;65
5.2;7. Reconstructive Morphology;162
5.3;8. Proto-Semitic Lexicon;190
5.4;9. Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification of the Semitic Languages;270
6;III. The Semitic Languages and Dialects I: Their Typology;290
6.1;10. Morphological Typology of Semitic;290
6.2;11. Syntactic Typology of Semitic;314
7;IV. The Semitic Languages and Dialects II: East Semitic;341
7.1;12. Akkadian in General;341
7.2;13. Eblaite and Old Akkadian;351
7.3;14. Babylonian and Assyrian;370
7.4;15. Akkadian and Sumerian Language Contact;407
7.5;16. Akkadian as a Diplomatic Language;416
7.6;17. Akkadian and Aramaic Language Contact;427
8;V. The Semitic Languages and Dialects III: North-West Semitic;436
8.1;18. Northwest Semitic in General;436
8.2;19. Amorite;463
8.3;20. Ugaritic;471
8.4;21. Phoenician and Punic;483
8.5;22. Biblical Hebrew;491
8.6;23. Mishnaic Hebrew;526
8.7;24. Modern Hebrew;534
8.8;25. Hebrew as the Language of Judaism;548
8.9;26. The Re-Emergence of Hebrew as a National Language;557
8.10;27. Old Aramaic;566
8.11;28. Imperial Aramaic;585
8.12;29. Imperial Aramaic as an Administrative Language of the Achaemenid Period;598
8.13;30. Late Imperial Aramaic;609
8.14;31. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic;621
8.15;32. Samaritan Aramaic;630
8.16;33. Christian Palestinian Aramaic;639
8.17;34. Syriac;648
8.18;35. Syriac as the Language of Eastern Christianity;663
8.19;36. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic;671
8.20;37. Mandaic;681
8.21;38. Western Neo-Aramaic;696
8.22;39. Turoyo and Mlah.sô;708
8.23;40. North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic;719
8.24;41. Neo-Mandaic;736
8.25;42. Language Contact between Aramaic Dialects and Iranian;749
8.26;43. Aramaic-Arabic Language Contact;758
9;VI. The Semitic Languages and Dialects IV: Languages of the Arabian Peninsula;767
9.1;44. Ancient North Arabian;767
9.2;45. Classical Arabic;793
9.3;46. Arabic as the Language of Islam;822
9.4;47. Middle Arabic;828
9.5;48. Creating a Modern Standard Language from Medieval Tradition: The Nahda and the Arabic Academies;846
9.6;49. Modern Standard Arabic;855
9.7;50. Arabic Dialects (general article);862
9.8;51. Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula;908
9.9;52. Arabic Dialects of Mesopotamia;920
9.10;53. Dialects of the Levant;931
9.11;54. Dialects of Egypt and Sudan;946
9.12;55. Arabic in the North African Region;965
9.13;56. Arabic Sociolinguistics;981
9.14;57. Arabic Urban Vernaculars;993
9.15;58. Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles;1001
9.16;59. Berber and Arabic Language Contact;1012
9.17;60. Arabic-Persian Language Contact;1026
9.18;61. Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages;1033
9.19;62. Maltese as a National Language;1044
9.20;63. Ancient South Arabian;1053
9.21;64. Modern South Arabian;1084
10;VII. The Semitic Languages and Dialects V: Ethio-Semitic Languages;1125
10.1;65. Ethio-Semitic in General;1125
10.2;65. Old Ethiopic;1135
10.3;66. Tigre;1153
10.4;67. Tigrinya;1164
10.5;68. Tigrinya as National Language of Eritrea and Tigray;1181
10.6;69. Amharic;1189
10.7;70. The Role of Amharic as a National Language and an African lingua franca;1223
10.8;71. Gurage;1231
10.9;72. Harari;1268
10.10;73. Ethiosemitic-Cushitic Language Contact;1277
11;Terminological index;1288

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Weninger, University of Marburg, Germany; Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge, UK; Michael P. Streck, University of Leipzig, Germany; Janet C. E. Watson, University of Salford, UK.