Description
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.
This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development.
Author: John Huehnergard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 754
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.63d
ISBN13: 9780415731959
ISBN10: 041573195X
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Semantics
- Foreign Language Study | Slavic Languages (Other)
- Foreign Language Study | Arabic
About the Author
John Huehnergard is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and former Professor of Semitic Philology at Harvard University.
Na'ama Pat-El is Associate Professor of Comparative Semitic Linguistics in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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