Rebecca Hasselbach

Case in Semitic

Roles, Relations, and Reconstruction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconstructs the Semitic case system, based on a detailed analysis of the expression of grammatical roles and relations in the attested Semitic languages. It brings typological methods to bear on the study of comparative Semitics and includes detailed analyses of a wide range of data. The book will interest Semiticists and typologists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199671809
• ISBN-10: 019967180X
• Artikelnr.: 36964552

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Hasselbach has been Assistant Professor of Comparative Semitics, University of Chicago, since 2005, before which she was Preceptor for Semitic Philology at Harvard. Her publications include Sargonic Akkadian: A Historical and Comparative Study of the Syllabic Texts (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: The Semitic case system: basic evidence and traditional reconstruction
3: Linguistic Typology
4: Grammatical roles and the alignment of Semitic
5: Head- and dependent-marking in Semitic
6: The function of case markers in Semitic
7: Conclusions
Bibliography
Indexes of names and subjects