Historical and comparative linguistics Books
Zaphon Mehrsprachigkeit: Vom Alten Orient Bis Zum
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Zaphon Agyptische Namen Und Worter Im Alten Testament
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Zaphon Introduction to Old Assyrian
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Zaphon Sumerische Glossenhandschriften ALS Quellen Des
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Kyoto University Press A Search for the Origins of Human Speech:
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Ege Yayinlari Early Mediterranean Scripts
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Complex Words, Causatives, Verbal Periphrases and
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish--and Czech. Utilizing findings from the Czech National Corpus’ massive language database, the authors analyze a range of linguistic categories to discover the differences and similarities between Czech and the Romance languages. Due to the massive amount of data mined, as well as the high number of languages examined, this book presents general and individual typological features of the four Romance languages and Czech that often exceed what has previously been accepted in the field of comparative linguistics.Table of Contents1. Expressions of potential participation, iterativity, causation, ingressivity and adverbial subordination in the light of parallel corpora Petr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Olga Nadvornikova, Pavel Štichauer 1.1 Investigation project and its history 1.2 Objectives and scope of the present monograph 1.3 Organisation of the monograph 1.4 Terminological remarks 1.4.1 Romance languages under scrutiny and use of the term Romance 1.4.2 Use of the terms counterpart and respondent 2. Corpus design & corpus-based contrastive research methodology Olga Nadvornikova 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Corpus-based contrastive research methodology 2.2 Corpora used in this study 3. Morphologically complex words in romance and their Czech respondents Pavel Štichauer, Jan Hricsina, Jiri Jancik, Jaroslava Jindrova, Zuzana Krinkova, Daniel Petrik 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Word-formation: complex vs simple words 3.2 Romance and Czech: common and different word-formation patterns 3.3 The typology of Czech respondents 3.3.1 Typology of Czech respondents of the adjectives with the suffix -bile/-ble/-vel 3.3.2 Typology of Czech respondents for verbs with the prefix re-/ri- 3.4 The modal suffix -ble/-bile/-vel 3.4.1 Data elaboration and analysis 3.4.2 Quantitative distribution of the types 3.4.3 Discussion of various examples 3.5 The iterative prefix re-/ri- 3.5.1 Data elaboration and analysis 3.5.2 Quantitative distribution of the types 3.5.3 Discussion of various examples 3.6 Concluding remarks 4. Causative constructions in romance and their Czech respondents Petr Cermak, Dana Kratochvilova, Petra Laufkova, Pavel Štichauer 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Definition of causativity and its forms of expression 4.2 Causativity in Romance languages 4.2.1 Analytic type 4.2.2 Synthetic type 4.2.3 Characteristics of the Romance construction hacer/fare/faire/fazer + infinitive 4.3 Causativity in Czech 4.3.1 Word-formatting causativity 4.3.1.1 Verbs derived from another verb 4.3.1.2 Verbs derived from an adjective 4.3.1.3 No change in the lexical basis, expressing causativity through a prefix roz- 4.3.2 Semantic causativity 4.3.2.1 Suppletive types 4.3.2.2 Causative interpretation resulting from syntax 4.3.3 Analytic causativity 4.3.3.1 Causative verbs followed by a subordinate clause 4.3.3.2 Causative verbs followed by a nominal syntagma 4.3.3.3 (Semi-)causative verbs followed by an infinitive 4.4 Our typology of Czech respondents 4.5 Methodology 4.6 Causative constructions in Romance – formal comparison 4.7 Analysis of Czech respondents 4.7.1 Primary Czech respondents 4.7.1.1 Type 3 – shodit type (hacer caer / far cadere / faire tomber / fazer cair) 4.7.1.2 Type 8 – what makes you think that > proc myslite? (‘why do you think that?’) 4.7.1.3 Type 4 – dat vypit type 4.7.2 Secondary Czech respondents 4.7.2.1 Type 5 – dohnat k slzam type 4.7.2.2 Type 9 – other translation 4.7.2.3 Type 7 – zpusobit, že tal type 4.7.2.4 Type 1 – rozplakat type 4.7.2.5 Type 2 – posadit type and type 6 – zpusobit tani type 4.7.2.6 Type 10 – no translation 4.8 Conclusions
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Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Shakespeare's Impact on the Hindi Language
Book SynopsisShakespeare's influence on Hindi literature has been profound, shaping drama and poetry, leading to new forms and language. Dr. J.P. Mishra's study explores this impact, valuable for scholars of English and Hindi literature and Indo-British cultural relations.
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Pilgrims Publishing Studies on Hindi: A Comprehensive Bibliography
Book SynopsisHindi is the dominant language in India, supported by the government for promotion. It is the most spoken and powerful language, with official status in the Union and 11 states. It is crucial for understanding Indian people and culture.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo The Treatment of Turkic Etymologies in English L
Book SynopsisThe work offers a detailed analysis of Anglo-Turkiccultural and linguistic relations as reflected in Englishvocabulary between the 16th and early 20th centuries.Words attested in historical English texts forwhich a Turkic language acted as an etymologicallink have not yet received a monograph treatmentand the information to be found in etymological dictionariesof English is usually hardly adequate. Theaim of the current book is to rectify this situation.The main part of the study is an etymological dictionaryof 106 lexical items related to material culturethat were adopted from Turkic or via Turkic, whetherdirectly or not. For each entry a chronological list oforthographic variants is provided, followed by a summaryof information on the word's etymology to befound in selected etymological dictionaries of English.A critical survey of these is the point of departure forthe author's own commentary. Through careful analysisof contexts in which the new lexical items cameto be used in English as well as a thorough scrutinyof their formal features the author reconstructs thetransmission routes along which the vocabulary inquestion was transmitted into English.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo The Latin –ies/ia Inflection – Synchronic
Book SynopsisThe monograph concerns the origin of the Latin -iēs/-ia inflection, the topic which to this day has not been explained satisfactorily. The proposal presented in the book allows for the most economic solution to the problem without difficult assumptions which were present in the previous hypotheses. The author explains the origin of the formation as the result of the identification and mutual influence of three former paradigms reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European and subsequent analogical influence of the commonly used Latin noun diēs 'day' from the fifth declension.Apart from the hypothesis itself, the analysis of all the forms of the Latin -iēs/-ia inflection is presented with an etymological commentary and illustrative examples from the original ancient texts. The question on the origin of the Latin fifth declension is also mentioned alongside the modern description of the Proto-Indo-European derivational morphology.Table of ContentsList of abbreviationsIntroductionChapter oneIndo-European derivational morphologyChapter twoThe Latin fifth declensionChapter threeThe -iēs/-ia nouns – synchronic and diachronic evidenceChapter fourThe originBibliographyIndex
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Languages in Contact and Contrast – A Festschrift
Book SynopsisThe Festschrift is a collection of papers written in honour of Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld to mark the occasion of her 70th birthday.Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld is one of the leading authorities in the field of language contact, and has pursued research on the influence of English on Polish and other European languages, Polish-English contrastive studies, as well as various aspects of English grammar. She has authored more than 160 publications, including four books, as well as course books and academic papers. She has also edited and co-edited dictionaries of English borrowings in Polish. The Festschrift volume comprises papers from the world of linguistics which have been authored by eminent scholars from Poland and abroad. The chapters included in the volume focus on various issues, including those from the area of contact linguistics. The topics covered in the research papers comprise, for instance, the influence of English on different languages, such as Polish, Danish, Afrikaans, Swedish, Spanish, German and Japanese, as well as on Asian languages and cultures. The authors investigate Celtic borrowings in Polish, anglicisms in Serbian, or Yiddish borrowings in contemporary American English. The contributions also discuss the phenomenon of Ponglish, i.e., the communication code used by Poles living in the UK, the presence of foreign languages in the linguistic landscape of Kraków, as well as the problem of multilingualism in Europe, the relation between language, culture and identity, and the influence of globalisation on both Polish language and culture. Finally, selected chapters address a range of phenomena related to Karaim, Russenorsk, and Turkish.
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Archeobooks Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part II:
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Archeobooks Essays in the History of Languages and
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La suerte de los nombres propios léxico y
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Mediaevalia Volume 62: Danish Journal
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Museum Tusculanum Press Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 19
Book SynopsisTocharian and Indo-European Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of this language, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies also looks at it in relationship to other Indo-European languages.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Mediaevalia: Danish Journal of
Book SynopsisClassica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Copenhagen Working Papers in Linguistics: Volume
Book SynopsisSince its foundation in May 1988, the Department of General and Applied Linguistics has issued -- at irregular intervals -- a number of volumes in the series Copenhagen Working Papers in Linguistics, in which staff members, graduate students and guest researchers have reported on their research activities. So far two volumes of papers on current research and three monographs have appeared in the series. The present volume contains contributions within the fields of general linguistics and historical linguistics and abstracts of papers and lectures by IAAS staff members and others affiliated to the department.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Mediaevalia vol. 47
Book SynopsisHolger Friis Johansen () and Giuseppe Torresin: Ole L. Smith in memoriam Holger Friis Johansen (): A poem by Theognis, part III 4. The collection and the corpus Victoria Wohl: ευσεβειας ενεκα και φιλοτιμιας. Hegemony and democracy at the Panathenaia Tasos Aidonis: Tissaphernes'' dealings with the Greeks Asger Ousager: Plotinus on motion and personal identity in time and space David Bain: Some textual and lexical notes on Cyranides ''books five and six'' Stavros A. Frangoulidis: (Meta)theatre as therapy in Terence''s Phormio Francis Xavier Ryan: Four Republican senators Raymond J. Clarck: The Avernian Sibyl''s cave: from military tunnel to mediaeval spa Jesper Carlsen: Saltuarius: a Latin job title W.S. Watt: Notes on the Latin anthology Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit: Storm and stress. The natural and the unnatural in De Sodoma and De Iona Note a la section suivante Jürgen Leonhardt: Classical metrics in medieval and Renaissance poetry. Some practical considerations Joachim Leeker: La présence des auters classiques dans l''histoirographie des pays romans (XIII au XV siècles) James Hankins: Antiplatonism in the Renaissance and the middle ages N.G. Wilson: The manuscripts of Greek classics in the middle ages and Renaissance Ole L. Smith: Medieval and Renaissance commentaires in Greek on classical Greek texts
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Museum Tusculanum Press Linguistica Testuale Comparativa: In Memoriam
Book SynopsisActes du Colloque international de la Societá di Linguistica Italiana, qui s'est tenu á Copenhague du 5 au 7 février 1998 sur la linguistique textuelle comparative. 22 articles rédigés en français, espagnol et italien.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Mediaevalia: Volume 49
Book SynopsisClassica et Mediaevalia - Volume 49
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Museum Tusculanum Press Classica et Mediaevalia: Danish Journal of
Book SynopsisClassica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Changing Philologies: Contributions to the
Book SynopsisThis book contains the proceedings from the conference ''Changing Philologies'' together with other contributions on the same topic. The conference was organised by the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and was held on 8-9 February 2002 in Copenhagen. The contributors to this book question whether the traditional paradigm of national philology, which dominated foreign language studies for more than a century, is appropriate for meeting the challenge posed by the economic and political globalisation of today. They argue that the relation between languages and cultures will become an important field of investigation in the future, and that foreign language studies must provide linguistically skilled candidates trained in cultural translation and intercultural communication. In order to do so, the departments of foreign language studies must strengthen their interdisciplinary activities and engage in theoretical reflections upon the relation between such entities as language, culture, identity, and history, and the self-knowledge and imaginary world pictures represented in art and literature.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Indo-European Word Formation: Proceedings of the
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University Press of Southern Denmark Prepositions in English Grammars Until 1801: with
Book SynopsisThe first part of this study presents a broad outline of the establishment of the parts of speech, with special emphasis on prepositions, in Ancient Greece, and of the further development in the Roman age, including the long shadow cast by Donatus and Priscian. It then examines the works of two of the most prominent members of the group of Speculative Grammarians in the High Middle Ages, and those of some of the leading grammar writers of the Renaissance. The central part of the book focuses on a detailed analysis of prepositions in fifty English grammatical treatises from Bullokar (1586) to Dalton (1801). Here the author not only scrutinises the individual grammatical texts, but by dealing with them in chronological order he also provides a historical perspective and hence a valuable overview of the treatment of prepositions as well as of word classes more generally during the first two centuries or so of English grammar writing. Taken together, these various aspects make this an important contribution to the history of linguistics.
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Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki Il Dizionario Spagnolo-Italiano Di Nicolao
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Viella Editrice La Lingua Dei Trobadores: Profilo
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Edizioni Terra Santa Il Geroglifico Elementare: Storia, Mistero E
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Pontificio Istituto Biblico Studies in Northwest Semitic
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Pontificio Istituto Biblico Biblical Greek: Illustrated with Examples
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Pontificio Istituto Biblico Morphological Analysis of New Testament Greek - A
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Filologia Medievale: Comparatistica, Critica
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider I Rapporti Tra Il Sassone E lInglese Antico
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John Benjamins Publishing Co The Development of Aspirated Fricatives in Gothic
Book SynopsisThis book presents three major hypotheses concerning the development of fricatives in Gothic. First, Gothic introduced aspiration or a phonological feature [spread glottis] to the fricative system. Second, this acquisition of aspirated fricatives should be explained as a contact-induced change. Specifically, a Gothic/Greek bilingual community may be held responsible for initiating and diffusing the contact change. Third, I claim that this contact-driven featural enrichment prompted an array of radical restructurings of fricatives in their phonological and morphological organizations in Gothic, notably the occurrence of Final Devoicing in contrast to the nonoccurrence of medial voicing, the elimination of Verner's Law effects in strong verbs, the operation of Thurneysen's Law, and the apparently irregular split of PGmc. */fl-/ to Go. /fl-/ and /þl-/. Thus, privileged by a Lower Danube community largely composed of Greek/Gothic bilinguals, this cluster of mid-fourth-century innovations c
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language
Book SynopsisThis book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have been more conservative than dialects to their east and west; that the first split in proto-Japanese was the separation of proto-Ryūkyūan; and so on. De Boer brings together evidence from recent fieldwork, premodern texts, and other sources to establish a theory of dialect divergence that avoids the problems these assumptions entail. Building on De Boer 2010, this book brings the author's theory up to date with research published in the interim, explains why Japanese is best understood as a restricted tone language, and why mergers in the large tone classes of nouns and verbs are especially reliable markers of dialect divergence.
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Investigating Language Isolates
Book SynopsisLanguage isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a detailed, in-depth, up-to-date discussion of what it means to be a language isolate and the criteria by which languages should be classified as isolate. The book also provides a series of techniques, some refined on the basis of former literature, and others new, in order to recover the histories of language isolates. In addition, the papers in this volume advance our knowledge about each of the individual languages studied here, which are, for the most part, endangered and under-documented. This book will appeal to a broad audience spanning typologists, historical linguists, descriptive linguists, and teachers of linguistics.
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De Gruyter Indices
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- A. SUBJECT INDEX -- B. INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND OF TERMS DERIVED FROM PROPER NAMES -- C. INDEX OF AUTHORS AND PASSAGES -- D. INDEX OF WORDS AND FORMS DISCUSSED OR MENTIONED
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Peeters Publishers Grecisms in Ancient Armenian
Book SynopsisThis book is a systematic presentation of the linguistic features in all the published Ancient Armenian texts, mainly belonging to the so-called Hellenizing School of translations (late fifth - early eighth century), which are explained by Greek influence. These features include various types of lexical, morphological and syntactical Grecisms. Many of them are also characteristic of 'pre-Hellenizing' translations; a few examples of some of them are found in the early classical translations from Greek. In all cases the corresponding passages of the Greek originals (if extant) are cited. Most of the sections concluded with examples of the classical translation practice of the corresponding linguistic features without any Greek influence. In an appendix, various features of Latinizing Armenian (seventeenth century) are traced back to Hellenizing Armenian.
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Peeters Publishers Autour De La Langue Arabe: Etudes Presentees a
Book SynopsisLes themes et sujets du present volume d'hommages que lui dedient plusieurs de ses collegues et amis, correspondent au profil a la fois focalise et varie de Jacques Grand'Henry, Professeur emerite d'etudes arabes a l'Universite catholique de Louvain. Les domaines couverts sont notamment ceux de la dialectologie arabe descriptive ou historique, de la linguistique historique et comparative, du moyen arabe ou de l'arabe melange tel qu'on le trouve dans les textes medievaux et dans les documents modernes (textes litteraires ou enonces oraux), et de la philologie arabe sous ses differents aspects. Ce volume contient des contributions de: Frederic Bauden, Lidia Bettini, Giovanni Canova, Joseph Chetrit, David Cohen, Werner Diem, Madiha Doss, Bruno Halflants, Clive Holes, Jerome Lentin, Xavier Luffin, Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Catherine Taine-Cheikh, Andrzej Zaborski et Liesbeth Zack.
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Peeters Publishers A Berichtigungsliste of Demotic Documents. C.
Book SynopsisTo complement the text-based organization of the emendations and corrections listed in the Demotic Berichtigungsliste vols. A-B, this volume provides the Indexes of Rejected and Adopted Readings. These enable the reader to search for individual lexemes, be they words, names of gods or private persons, toponyms, titles, or numerals. In an additional Index all randomly published texts, i.e. texts published in periodicals and volumes of miscellaneous studies (Festschriften, Proceedings of Congresses and Colloquia, etc.), are listed under their inventory numbers in order to enable the reader to ascertain the heading under which a given text can be found.
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Peeters Publishers Semitic Linguistics in Historical Perspective
Book SynopsisThe present work is conceived as a companion volume to the author's Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Its purpose is to show the birth and development of Semitic linguistics in broad lines, but also to pay a closer attention to languages which have played a minor role in the Comparative Grammar, while they are actively studied at present, viz. Middle Aramaic, Mandaic, Neo-Aramaic. Suggestions are also made for a renewed research on some conjugation forms in Old Aramaic, Classical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Epigraphic Southern Arabian, also Beja, whose links with Semitic are stronger than often assumed. Attention is paid to the existence of a "continued" aspect beside the "performed" one and the "not (yet) performed", also to the relations between Old Egyptian and Semitic, especially in the question of the correspondence of the consonants in earlier periods. Finally, the traces of an ergative grammatical system are underscored, not only in Semitic, but even more in Libyco-Berber, the Afro-Asiatic phylum which is nearest to Semitic, and closer attention is paid to research in the field of Proto-Semitic roots, apparently monosyllabic.
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Peeters Publishers Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A
Book SynopsisJos J.S. Weitenberg, Professor of Armenian Studies at Leiden University (1994-2009), co-founder and President of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, was a scholar of global standing in Hittite, Armenian and Indo-European linguistics. The twenty-three studies by colleagues and former students gathered in this volume reflect some of the depth and breadth of Weitenberg’s scholarship: Hittite and Anatolian, to which Weitenberg made a classic contribution with Die hethitischen u-Stämme (1984), and Indo-European etymologies. Armenian dialectology is well represented, as are contributions to wider Armenian culture, and the reception of Greek literary culture in Armenian. Further studies are devoted to digital preparation of critical editions, the relationship between master and pupil as well as the Armenian reception and interpretation of Biblical and apocryphal material, to which Weitenberg contributed in Eusèbe d'Émèse. Commentaire de la Genèse. Texte arménien de l'édition de Venise [1980]. Fragments grecs et syriaques. Avec traductions, together with Françoise Petit and Lucas Van Rompay (2011).
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Peeters Publishers L'évolution du système verbal persan (Xe-XVIe
Book SynopsisLe persan est seule des langues iraniennes dont on puisse suivre l'histoire depuis son ancêtre le vieux perse (552-350 avant J.-C.) jusqu'à nos jours. Les études diachroniques sont néanmoins rares: on considère souvent que le persan a peu changé depuis sa renaissance littéraire au IXe siècle. S'il est vrai que le persan a moins évolué depuis Firdousi (Xe-XIe siècles) que le français depuis Chrétien de Troyes, les changements qu'il a connus sont pourtant loin d'être mineurs. Et le secteur de la langue qui a connu le plus de changements est le système verbal, objet de ce livre. S'appuyant sur un corpus de textes persans et judéo-persans, dont des manuscrits autographes, cet ouvrage étudie les questions relatives au temps, à l'aspect et au mode, du Xe au XVIe siècles. Des faits de langue sont comparés à ceux d'autres langues indo-européennes, mais aussi de langues africaines, amérindiennes ou sémitiques. Certains d'entre eux s'avèrent être des invariants, par exemple l'affaiblissement du trait de concomitance, ou la disparition et la recréation d'un mode subjonctif.
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Peeters Publishers L'énantiosémie dans le lexique de l'arabe
Book SynopsisConsidérée au départ, dans les célèbres articles d'Abel (1884-85), relayé par Freud (1910), comme une aberration linguistique qui ne saurait s'expliquer qu'en tant que scorie d'un stade primitif de l'humanité, l'énantiosémie - le fait de signifier une chose et son contraire - n'a pas beaucoup retenu l'attention des chercheurs. C'est pourquoi la première partie du livre s'attache à montrer qu'il s'agit d'un phénomène courant, comme l'avait déjà reconnu Bergier (1837), aussi bien en français qu'en anglais (ch. 1 et 2). Dans la tradition linguistique arabe, au contraire, l'énantiosémie a fait l'objet d'un grand nombre de lexiques spécialisés qui mettent les données à la portée de tous. Ces données sont interprétées ici dans le cadre de la Théorie des matrices et des étymons, qui renouvelle complètement l'organisation du lexique de l'arabe et des langues sémitiques. Il s'ensuit que l'énantiosémie est abordée au niveau des étymons en non plus des racines, ce qui accroît considérablement l'inventaire des cas. On procède à un inventaire des étymons énantiosémiques (ch. 3), avant de proposer quatre types d'explication du phénomène (ch. 4). Les étymons énantiosémiques sont alors présentés sous forme d'un lexique par ordre alphabétique (ch. 5). Enfin un chapitre est consacré aux radicaux qui, pour l'instant, ne sont pas analysables en étymons mais qui constituent néanmoins des mots «à sens contraire» (ch. 6).
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Peeters Publishers Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics IV
Book SynopsisA large number of Aramaic inscriptions from the 9th century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. are revisited in this fourth volume of Studiees. After the stele of Tel Dan, the epitaph of Kuttamuwa from Zincirli, and the inscription found at Tepe Qalaichi, Aramaic dockets from Dur-Katlimmu are re-examined, distinguishing a court ruling concerning theft, agreements regarding mortgage, guarantee, indemnity, barley and silver loans, and the particular nsk-loan. Next are examined "cadastral" reports from Idumaea, some inscriptions from Hellenistic times, a divorce bill from the Roman period, several Palmyrene dedications, epitaphs, and honorific inscriptions, as well as some Hatraean texts, mainly related to Adiabene. Finally, Mercionism is considered as background of a saying on "two gods", ascribed to Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba. Like in the preceding volumes of Studies, detailed indexes list the inscriptions, the personal names and the place-names examined, as well as other subjects.
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