An outline of the grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions / / Ahmad Al-Jallad.
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...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 80 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English Arabic |
| Series: | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ;
Volume 80. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (383 pages, 3 pages of plates) :; illustrations (some color), photographs. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Script and Orthography
- Phonology and Phonetics
- Nominal Morphology
- The Verb
- Adjectives and Agreement
- Prepositions
- Adverbs
- Vocative Particles
- Other Particles
- Conjunctions
- Verbless Clauses
- Verbal Clauses
- The Syntax of Adverbs
- Topicalization
- Syntax of the Infinitive
- Relative and Subordinate Clauses
- Circumstantial Clauses
- Coordination
- Conditional Clauses
- Other Constructions
- Compositional Formulae
- Appendix of Inscriptions
- Dictionary
- Plates
- Bibliography
- Index of Tribes.