Semitic languages in contact /

Semitic languages in contact / / edited by Aaron Michael Butts ; contributors, Ahmad Al-Jallad [and twenty four others].

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Semitic Languages in Contact 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/...

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Superior document:Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 82
TeilnehmendeR:
Butts, Aaron Michael,
Al-Jallad, Ahmad,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 82.
Physical Description:1 online resource (453 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • A Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order / Ahmad Al-Jallad and Ali Al-Manaser
  • Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient Contact Features in Ge‘ez and Amharic / David Appleyard
  • Hebrew Adverbialization, Aramaic Language Contact, and mpny ʾšr in Exodus 19:18 / Samuel Boyd and Humphrey Hardy
  • The Distribution of Declined Participles in Aramaic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Aramaic Translations / Yochanan Breuer
  • The Proto-Semitic “Asseverative *la-” and the Innovative isg Prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Languages / Maria Bulakh
  • Egyptianizing Features in Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions from Egypt / David Calabro
  • Head-Marking in Neo-Aramaic Genitive Constructions and the ezafe Construction in Kurdish / Eran Cohen
  • Notes on Foreign Words in Hatran Aramaic / Riccardo Contini and Paola Pagano
  • Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium bce / C. Jay Crisostomo
  • Inner-Semitic Loans and Lexical Doublets vs. Genetically Related Cognates / Lutz Edzard
  • Structural Change in Urban Palestinian Arabic Induced by Contact with Modern Hebrew / Uri Horesh
  • Language Contact as Reflected in the Consonant System of Ṭuroyo / Otto Jastrow
  • Lexical Borrowings in the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale / Lily Kahn
  • Possible Ugaritic Influences on the Hurrian of Ras Shamra-Ugarit in Alphabetic Script / Joseph Lam
  • The Lexical Component in the Aramaic Substrate of Palestinian Arabic / Mila Neishtadt
  • The Classification of Hobyot / Aaron D. Rubin
  • Expression of Attributive Possession in Tunisian Arabic: The Role of Language Contact / Lotfi Sayahi
  • Aramaic Loanwords in Gǝʿǝz / Jürgen Tubach
  • Language Contact between Akkadian and Northwest Semitic Languages in Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age / Juan-Pablo Vita
  • Semitic Languages in Contact—Syntactic Changes in the Verbal System and in Verbal Complementation / Tamar Zewi and Mikhal Oren
  • Index.

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