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Semitic Languages: Features, Structures, Relations, Processes

Semitic Languages: Features, Structures, Relations, Processes

Hardcover

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0199644918
ISBN13: 9780199644919
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 20 2013
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.76
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.92 Depth: 9.93
Language: English
This book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic. These include some of the world's oldest attested languages, among them Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic, as well as various modern languages. Gideon Goldenberg describes their history, geographical distribution, writing systems, and genetic classi?cation. He examines their main features and distinctive characteristics, including their phonology, morphemes, derivational morphology, verbal systems, syntactic relationships, and their typological signi?cance. He also discusses the pioneering work and achievements of medieval Arabic and Hebrew scholars in theoretical and descriptive aspects of grammar, lexicography, and philology. Professor Goldenberg's balanced, undogmatic account presents the fruits of a lifetime of original research: it will be widely welcomed by scholars and advanced students of the Semitic languages and linguistic typology.

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