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Subject(s)

• Semitic languages—Grammar, Comparative [Browse]
• Semitic languages—Grammar [Browse]
• Languages in contact [Browse]

Editor

• Butts, Aaron Michael [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 82. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 82

Summary note

This book contains twenty case studies analysing various contact situations involving Semitic languages. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging to the Modern Arabic, Modern South Arabian, Neo-Aramaic, and Neo-Ethiopian branches of the Semitic family. The topics discussed include writing systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The approaches range from traditional philology to more theoretically-driven linguistics. These diverse studies are united by the theme of language contact. Thus, the volume aims to provide the status quaestionis of the study of language contact among the Semitic languages.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN

• 9789004300149 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004300147 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015024968

OCLC

912278038

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