The Semitic LanguagesJohn Huehnergard, Na’ama Pat-El Routledge, 08/10/2013 - 592 páginas The Semitic Languages presents a unique, comprehensive survey of individual languages or language clusters from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. The Semitic family occupies a position of great historical and linguistic significance: the spoken and written languages of the Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arabs spread throughout Asia and northern and central Africa; the Old Semitic civilizations in turn contributed significantly to European culture; and modern Hebrew, modern literary Arabic, Amharic, and Tigrinya have become their nations' official languages. The book is divided into three parts and each chapter presents a self-contained article, written by a recognized expert in the field. * I. General Issues: providing an introduction to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing systems of this language family. * II. Old Semitic Languages * III. Modern Semitic Languages Parts II and III contain structured chapters, which enable the reader to access and compare information easily. These individual descriptions of each language or cluster include phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and dialects. Suggestions are made for the most useful sources of further reading and the work is comprehensively indexed. |
Índice
List of Maps | |
Preface | |
Genetic Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages | |
Scripts of Semitic Languages | |
The Arabic Grammatical Tradition | |
The Hebrew Grammatical Tradition | |
Akkadian | |
Amorite and Eblaite | |
Geez Ethiopic | |
Arabic Dialects and Maltese | |
Modern Hebrew | |
The NeoAramaic Languages | |
The Modern South Arabian Languages | |
Tigrinya | |
Tigré | |
Amharic and Argobba | |
Aramaic | |
Ugaritic | |
Ancient Hebrew | |
Phoenician and the Eastern Canaanite Languages | |
Classical Arabic | |
Harari | |
The Silte Group East Gurage | |
Outer South Ethiopic | |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
3rd person accusative adjectives adverbial Akkadian Amharic Amorite Arabic dialects Aramaic Argobba attested basic bedouin broken plurals Canaanite conjugation conjunction consonant consonantal construct copula definite article derived dual Eblaite Ethiopic example expressed feminine forms Ge'ez Ge‘ez gemination genitive grammar Harari Hertevin imperative imperfect independent pronouns infinitive inflection inscriptions Jibbāli jussive lexical linguistic long vowels Maltese marked marker masculine meaning Mehri Mlaḥsô Modern Hebrew Modern South Arabian morpheme morphological MSAL negative NENA Neo-Mandaic nominal nonpast Northwest Semitic object suffix occur participle particle passive past patterns perfect personal pronouns Phoenician phonetic Phonology phrase plural preceding predicate prefix prepositions preterite pronominal suffixes radical reflexive relative clause root Sabean Sayhadic script Semitic languages sentence singular Soqotri South Arabian stem stress subjunctive suffix pronouns syllable syntactic Table tense texts Tigrinya Turoyo Ugaritic verb verbal nouns vocalic