Description
Book Synopsis
The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.
This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following:
new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology
an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic
text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation
new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference.
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Table of Contents
Introductory Chapters
1. Introduction to the Semitic Languages: John Huehnergard & Na‘ama Pat-El
2. Semitic and Afro-Asiatic: Gene Gragg
3. Proto-Semitic: John Huehnergard
4. The Semitic Language Family: A Typological Perspective: Na‘ama Pat-El
Language Chapters
5. Akkadian: Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
6. Gǝʕǝz (Classical Ethiopic): Aaron Michael Butts
7. Tigre of Gindaʕ: David L. Elias
8. Tigrinya: Maria Bulakh
9. Amharic: Lutz Edzard
10. Gurage (Muher): Ronny Meyer
11. Mehri: Aaron D. Rubin
12. Soqotri: Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh
13. Ancient South Arabian: Anne Multhoff
14. Safaitic: Ahmad Al-Jallad
15. Classical Arabic: Daniel Birnstiel
16. Levantine Arabic: Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga
17. Egyptian Arabic: Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Jason Schroepfer
18. Moroccan Arabic: Mike Turner
19. Ugaritic: Josef Tropper and Juan-Pablo Vita
20. The Canaanite Languages: Aren M. Wilson-Wright
21. Pre-modern Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew: Aaron D. Hornkohl
22. Modern Hebrew: Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor
23. Samaritan Aramaic: Christian Stadel
24. Modern Western Aramaic: Steven E. Fassberg
25. Syriac: Na‘ama Pat-El
26. Mandaic: C. G. Häberl
27. Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: the Dialect of Alqosh: Eleanor Coghill
