A Phoenician-Punic grammar / / by Charles R. Krahmalkov.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, Ancient Near East, Volume 54 = Handbuch der Orientalistik
• VerfasserIn: Krahmalkov, Charles R.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Köln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 2001.; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English; Semitic
• Series: Handbook of Oriental studies. Ancient Near East ; Volume 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 pages).
• Notes: Include indexes.

Carefully selected examples from texts and dialects of the whole Phoenician-Punic period bring to life the grammatical description of this language. Included are fully vocalized Punic and Neo-Punic inscriptions of Roman Tripolitiana in Latin orthography as well as the literary fragments of Punic drama as found in Plautus' comedy Poenulus. This classical descriptive grammar of the Phoenician-Punic language (1200 BCE - 350 CE) presents the reader with a full picture: its phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax and usage. Its history and its various dialects are dealt with in an introduction. Hebraists and Semitists will find the description of the verbal system of particular interest to them, especially that of the literary language, which holds that tense and aspect reference of a given form of the verb is largely a function of syntax, not morphology. Much of this grammatical material is presented here for the first time.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- CHAPTER ONE: THE PHOENICIAN LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER TWO: THE ALPHABET, ORTHOGRAPHY AND PHONOLOGY -- CHAPTER THREE: THE INDEPENDENT PERSONAL PRONOUNS -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE SUFFIXAL PRONOUNS -- CHAPTER FIVE: THE DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS AND THE DEFINITE ARTICLE -- CHAPTER SIX: THE RELATIVE AND DETERMINATIVE PRONOUNS -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE INTERROGATIVES, INDEPENDENT POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS, THE INDEPENDENT OBJECT PRONOUNS AND OTHER PRONOUNS -- CHAPTER EIGHT: THE NOUN AND ADJECTIVE -- CHAPTER NINE: THE VERB: INTRODUCTION AND THE SUFFIXING FORM -- CHAPTER TEN: THE VERB: THE PREFIXING FORMS -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE VERB: THE IMPERATIVE, THE PARTICIPLES AND INFINITIVES -- CHAPTER TWELVE: THE NUMERALS -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE PREPOSITIONS -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE ADVERBS AND CONJUNCTIONS -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE PARTICLES -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: CLOSING OBSERVATIONS ON SYNTAX -- SELECTIVE GENERAL INDEX -- HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK.