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Semitic languages in contact /

This book contains twenty case studies analysing various contact situations involving Semitic languages. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Butts, Aaron Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 82.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Contributors; A Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order; Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient Contact Features in Ge'ez and Amharic; Hebrew Adverbialization, Aramaic Language Contact, and mpny šr in Exodus 19:18; The Distribution of Declined Participles in Aramaic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Aramaic Translations; The Proto-Semitic "Asseverative *la-" and the Innovative 1SG Prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Languages; Egyptianizing Features in Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions from Egypt.
  • Head-Marking in Neo-Aramaic Genitive Constructions and the ezafe Construction in KurdishNotes on Foreign Words in Hatran Aramaic; Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE; Inner-Semitic Loans and Lexical Doublets vs. Genetically Related Cognates; Structural Change in Urban Palestinian Arabic Induced by Contact with Modern Hebrew; Language Contact as Reflected in the Consonant System of Ṭuroyo; Lexical Borrowings in the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale.