Comparative Semitic Linguistics : : A Manual / / Patrick R. Bennett.
As the title indicates, this unique resource is a manual on comparative linguistics, with the examples taken exclusively from Semitic languages. It is an innovative volume that recalls the earlier tradition of textbooks of comparative philology, which, however, exclusively treated Indo-European lang...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Exercises
- Shukran
- To the Reader
- Part 1: Basics of Descriptive Linguistics
- Part 2: A General Introduction to the Semitic Language Family
- Part 3: An Outline of Comparative Linguistics
- Part 4: Lexicostatistics: Some Alternatives
- Part 5: Linguistic Reconstruction: Comparative and Internal
- Part 6: Various Less-Common Techniques
- Part 7: Onward and Beyond
- Conclusion
- Paradigms A: Phonology
- Paradigms B: Morphology: Nouns and Pronouns
- Paradigms C: Morphology: Verbs
- Bibliography
- Wordlist A: Cognates and Skewed Re˘exes
- Wordlist B: Pair-Referenced Lexicostatistics and Subgrouping
- Wordlist C: Norm-Referenced and Pair-Referenced Lexicostatistics
- Wordlist D: Diglossia and Language Contact
- Wordlist E: Isoglosses
- Wordlist F: Berber and Semitic
- Wordlist G: Proto-Semitic A
- Wordlist H: Proto-Semitic B
- Wordlist I: Proto-Semitic C
- Appendix: Classical Semitic Scripts
- Index 1: Languages of Glosses
- Index 2: Glosses