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An outline of the grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions /
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient No...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ;
80. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Sigla; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. Writing in the Ḥarrah; 1.2. Language; 1.3. The Dating and Authors of the Inscriptions; 1.4. A Safaitic People?; 1.5. Distribution of the Inscriptions; 1.6. Text Genres and Text Editions; Chapter 2. Script and Orthography; 2.1. The Glyphs; 2.2. Characteristics of the Individual Glyphs; 2.3. Orthography; Chapter 3. Phonology and Phonetics; 3.1. Consonants; 3.2. Vowels; 3.4. Sound Changes; Chapter 4. Nominal Morphology; Overview; 4.1. Gender; 4.2. Onomastica; 4.3. Diminutives; 4.4. Number; 4.5. State; 4.6. Case.
- 4.7. Nominal Derivation4.8. Determination and Deixis; 4.9. The Demonstrative Pronouns; 4.10. Relative-Determinative Pronoun; 4.11. Indefinite Relative; 4.12. Quantifiers; 4.13. Numerals; 4.14. Personal Pronouns; Chapter 5. The Verb; Overview; 5.1. Suffix Conjugation; 5.2. Prefix Conjugation; 5.3. Infinitive; 5.4. Imperative; 5.5. Participles; 5.6. Verb Stems; Chapter 6. Adjectives and Agreement; 6.1. General Remarks on Adjectives; 6.2. Elatives and CVCCān Adjectives; 6.3. Verbal Agreement; 6.4. Pronominal Agreement; Chapter 7. Prepositions; Overview; Chapter 8. Adverbs; 8.1. Negative Adverbs.
- 8.2. Local AdverbsChapter 9. Vocative Particles; Chapter 10. Other Particles; Chapter 11. Conjunctions; 11.1. Coordinating Conjunctions; 11.2. Subordinating Conjuctions; 11.3. The Complementizer n; Chapter 12. Verbless Clauses; 12.1. Existential Clauses; 12.2. Possessive Predication; 12.3. Locative Predication; 12.4. Equational Sentences; Chapter 13. Verbal Clauses; 13.1. Main Clauses with Indicative Verbs; 13.2. Clauses with Pragmatic Optatives; 13.3. The Vocative and Imperative; Chapter 14. The Syntax of Adverbs; 14.1. Adverbs of Specification; 14.2. Adverbs of Circumstance.
- Chapter 15. TopicalizationChapter 16. Syntax of the Infinitive; 16.1. Infinitive Chain; 16.2. Commands; 16.3. The Infinitive to Express Purpose; 16.4. The Infinitive with b-; 16.5. Cognate Infinitive; Chapter 17. Relative and Subordinate Clauses; 17.1. Relative Clauses; 17.2. Purpose and Result Clauses; 17.3. Logically Subordinated Clauses with w and f; Chapter 18. Circumstantial Clauses; Chapter 19. Coordination; 19.1. Sequential Narrative; Chapter 20. Conditional Clauses; Chapter 21. Other Constructions; 21.1. Apposition; 21.2. Cleft Sentences; 21.3. Oaths to Deities.
- Chapter 22. Compositional Formulae22.1. Lineage; 22.2. Spending Time at a Place; 22.3. Building; 22.4. Claiming Authorship of Drawings; 22.5. Inscription Finding and Grieving; 22.6. Funerary; 22.7. Prayers and Curses; 22.8. Time; 22.9. Pasturing; 22.10. Ritual; 22.11. Watering; 22.12. Watch-Keeping and Guarding; 22.13. Waiting; 22.14. Weather; 22.15. Yearning; Chapter 23. Appendix of Inscriptions; (Partial) Bilingual Inscriptions; An Old Arabic Inscription in Greek Characters; Chapter 24. Dictionary; Alphabetic Order; Structure of the Entry; Plates; Bibliography; Index of Tribes.