Full Description
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 present-day forms.
This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following:
• new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology
• an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic
• text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation
• 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.
Contents
Introductory Chapters
1. Introduction to the Semitic Languages: John Huehnergard & Na'ama Pat-El
2. Semitic and Afro-Asiatic: Gene Gragg
3. Proto-Semitic: John Huehnergard
4. The Semitic Language Family: A Typological Perspective: Na'ama Pat-El
Language Chapters
5. Akkadian: Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
6. Gǝʕǝz (Classical Ethiopic): Aaron Michael Butts
7. Tigre of Gindaʕ: David L. Elias
8. Tigrinya: Maria Bulakh
9. Amharic: Lutz Edzard
10. Gurage (Muher): Ronny Meyer
11. Mehri: Aaron D. Rubin
12. Soqotri: Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh
13. Ancient South Arabian: Anne Multhoff
14. Safaitic: Ahmad Al-Jallad
15. Classical Arabic: Daniel Birnstiel
16. Levantine Arabic: Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga
17. Egyptian Arabic: Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Jason Schroepfer
18. Moroccan Arabic: Mike Turner
19. Ugaritic: Josef Tropper and Juan-Pablo Vita
20. The Canaanite Languages: Aren M. Wilson-Wright
21. Pre-modern Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew: Aaron D. Hornkohl
22. Modern Hebrew: Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor
23. Samaritan Aramaic: Christian Stadel
24. Modern Western Aramaic: Steven E. Fassberg
25. Syriac: Na'ama Pat-El
26. Mandaic: C. G. Häberl
27. Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: the Dialect of Alqosh: Eleanor Coghill
