Gideon Goldenberg

Semitic Languages

Features, Structures, Relations, Processes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic, among them Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic. It describes their history from ancient times to the present, geographical distribution, writing systems, classification, linguistic features, distinctive characteristics, and typological significance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 176mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780199644919
• ISBN-10: 0199644918
• Artikelnr.: 35275275

Autorenporträt

Gideon Goldenberg is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1996 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 1999. He has published extensively on Neo-Ethiopian languages, Syriac, Hebrew, and Neo-Aramaic, syntactic relations and typology, and on the history of linguistics in the Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

Full contents
Glossing Category labels
1: Introduction
2: The Languages
3: Distribution
4: Writing Systems and Scripts
5: Classification
6: Linguistic Traditions
7: Phonology
8: Closed-Class Morphemes
9: Derivational Morphology
10: Entity Terms
11: Syntactic Relations; Case System
12: Predicative Relation
13: Verbal System
14: Attributive Relation
15: Completive Relation
16: Existence, Belonging, and Possession
References
Index