Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics – serie
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General Linguistics and the Teaching of Dead Hamito-Semitic Languages
Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Groningen, 7th-8th November 1975, on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Semitic Studies and Near Eastern Archaeology of the State University at Groningen
Av J.H. Hospers
Häftad, 1978
1957 kr
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Arabic Grammar and Qur’ānic Exegesis in Early Islam
Inbunden, 1993
2153 kr
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In this volume the author examines the origins of Arabic linguistics on the basis of the earliest Qur’ānic commentaries (1st half of the 8th century A.D.). The material used includes both edited texts and manuscript commentaries.Various chapters analyze the exegetical methods of the early …
Les voies de la transmission du Kitāb de Sībawayhi
Inbunden, 1994
4351 kr
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The Kitāb of Sībawayhi, compiled in the 8th century, is the oldest existant Arabic grammar. It has gone through many editions, but all are based on a copy from the 18th century.The author of this important book has discovered 11 manuscripts in addition to the 66 mentioned by F. Sezgin (GAS, IX). …
Syriac Language of the Peshitta and Old Syriac Versions of Matthew
Syntactic Structure, Inner-Syriac Developments and Translation Technique
Av Jan Joosten
Inbunden, 1996
4699 kr
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The aim of the present work is to make a contribution to the understanding of the inner workings of the Syriac language through a study of one important corpus written in that language.The book contains four chapters on aspects of Syriac syntax. In addition, a chapter on inner-Syriac developments — …
Loan Verbs in Maltese
A Descriptive and Comparative Study
Inbunden, 1994
3903 kr
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Severed from its parent language and from the other vernaculars, as well as from the Islamic culture and religion, the peripheral Arabic dialect of Malta has for the last nine centuries been exposed to large-scale contact with Medieval Sicilian, Italian and, later, English. Modern Maltese thus …
Jewish Life in Arabic Language and Jerusalem Arabic in Communal Perspective
A Lexico-Semantic Study
Inbunden, 2000
2579 kr
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This volume deals with Judaeo-Jerusalem Arabic affected by Jewish socio-religious life, its interrelatedness with non-Jewish Jerusalem Arabic, and its erosion by youths through replacement by Hebrew.The socio-religious life of the Jewish community is first introduced, followed by descriptions of …
Phonological Structure of the Verbal Roots in Arabic and Hebrew
Inbunden, 2001
3291 kr
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This book contains an investigation of the co-occurrence between the consonants in the triliteral and quadriliteral verbal roots of Arabic and Hebrew. The consonants are grouped on the basis of Manner or of Place. Both co-occurrence restrictions and co-occurrence preferences of consonants and of …
Comparative Semitic Philology in the Middle Ages
From Saʿadiah Gaon to Ibn Barūn (10th-12th C.)
Av Aharon Maman
Inbunden, 2004
4486 kr
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This volume deals with medieval comparative Semitic philology (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) as practised by Hebrew philologists in the Arabic speaking lands, from Iraq to Spain, discussing its development through the generations, its technics and its theoretical basis. This research is based upon an …
Late Samaritan Hebrew
A Linguistic Analysis of its Different Types
Inbunden, 2004
3774 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive grammatical and lexicographical review of all types of late Samaritan Hebrew in all their literary manifestations from the twelfth century to the present. Much of it is devoted to description of Hybrid Samaritan Hebrew (HSH), which since the 13th is used as the …
Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja
Inbunden, 2004
4016 kr
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This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the spoken Aramaic dialect of the Jewish communities in the towns of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja in North Eastern Iraq. It also includes a transcription of oral texts recorded in the dialect.The grammar is based on extensive fieldwork carried …
Mixed Styles in Spoken Arabic in Egypt
Somewhere between Order and Chaos
Inbunden, 2006
3949 kr
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This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The …
Approaches to Arabic Linguistics
Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday
Av Harald Motzki, Everhard Ditters
Inbunden, 2007
7405 kr
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For a lifetime Kees Versteegh played a leading role in Arabic linguistics, dialects (diglossia, creolization, pidginization), the history of Arabic grammar, and other fields related to Arabic. From among his global contacts, colleagues contributed to a Liber Amicorum in appreciation of his …
Arabic Dialectology
In honour of Clive Holes on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday
Av Enam Al-Wer, Rudolf de Jong
Inbunden, 2009
3036 kr
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Much of the insight in the field of Arabic linguistics has for a long time remained unknown to linguists outside the field. Regrettably, Arabic data rarely feature in the formulation of theories and analytical tools in modern linguistics. This situation is unfavourable to both sides. The Arabist, …
Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa
Inbunden, 2009
3170 kr
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Aramaic has been spoken uninterruptedly for more than 3000 years, yet a generation from now most Aramaic dialects will be extinct. The study of the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects has increased dramatically in the past decade as linguists seek to record these dialects before the …
Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and Pragmatics
Av Amal Marogy
Inbunden, 2009
2589 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive portrait of the Kitāb Sībawayhi. It offers new insights into its historical and linguistic arguments and underlines their strong correlation. The decisive historical argument highlights al-Ḥīra’s role, not only as the centre of pre-Islamic Arabic culture, but also …
Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amədya
Inbunden, 2010
4474 kr
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This work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Amәdya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. No native speakers of this dialect remain in situ. They, along with the other Jewish communities …
Arabic and the Media
Linguistic Analyses and Applications
Inbunden, 2010
2996 kr
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This volume is the first of its kind to deal with a variety of topics by leading scholars related to the use of Arabic in the media. The contributors examine patterns of language use in traditional as well as 'new' media types, in order to further our understanding of the mechanism at work in the …
Mehri Language of Oman
Av Aaron Rubin
Inbunden, 2010
2616 kr
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This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the Omani dialect of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language of the Modern South Arabian group. It is the first complete grammar of any Modern South Arabian language in a hundred years, and the first ever Mehri grammar based on the Omani …
Grammaticalization of Arabic Prepositions and Subordinators
A Corpus-Based Study
Inbunden, 2010
4190 kr
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Previous scholarship on Arabic prepositions typically has presented these as a static closed class of words. Inevitably, such a treatment does not take into account the diachronic development of prepositions into new functions in syntax, semantics and discourse. The present study applies …
Ecology of Arabic
A Study of Arabicization
Inbunden, 2010
2852 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive account of Arabicization in the Middle East and Egypt in the early period of the Arab conquests. Drawing on material from ancient Arabic grammarians as well as modern studies in second language acquisition, it analyzes the linguistic and non-linguistic ecological …
Word in Arabic
Av Giuliano Lancioni, Lidia Bettini
Inbunden, 2011
3010 kr
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This is the first monograph-length volume entirely devoted to the theoretical and empirical issues raised by the definition of ‘word’ and related concepts in Arabic, both at the historical and synchronic level. Some of the best-known scholars in the field of Arabic linguistics debate such issues as …
In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture
Studies Presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday
Av Bilal Orfali
Inbunden, 2011
3935 kr
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The collection of articles in this volume is dedicated to Ramzi Baalbaki of the American University of Beirut on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The volume reflects the central themes of Ramzi Baalbaki’s scholarly work: history of Arabic grammar, Arabic lexicography, Arabic linguistics, …
Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic
Diachrony and Synchrony
Inbunden, 2012
3044 kr
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In recent scholarship, the connection between Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic is studied in a more systematic way. The idea of studying these two varieties in one theoretical frame is quite new, and was initiated at the conferences of the International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed …
Subjunctive Mood in Arabic Grammatical Thought
Av Arik Sadan
Inbunden, 2012
3237 kr
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In The Subjunctive Mood in Arabic Grammatical Thought Arik Sadan outlines the grammatical theories on the naṣb (subjunctive mood) in Classical Arabic. Examining over 160 treatises written by 85 grammarians, lexicographers and Qurʾān commentators, the author defines and characterizes the opinions of …
Arabic Influence on Northern Berber
Inbunden, 2013
3143 kr
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The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber provides an overview of the effects of language contact on a wide array of Berber languages spoken in the Maghrib. These languages have undergone important changes in their lexicon, phonology, morphology, and syntax as a result of over a thousand years of …
Verb in Archaic Biblical Poetry
A Discursive, Typological, and Historical Investigation of the Tense System
Inbunden, 2013
2808 kr
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The Verb in Archaic Biblical Poetry: A Discursive, Typological, and Historical Investigation of the Tense System offers a comprehensive analysis of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and discursive properties of the verb in the corpus of archaic" biblical poetry (The Song of Moses, Song of the …
Ingham of Arabia
A Collection of Articles Presented as a Tribute to the Career of Bruce Ingham
Inbunden, 2013
2324 kr
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Ingham of Arabia is a collection of twelve articles on modern Arabic dialectology contributed by an international collection of colleagues and pupils of Professor Ingham of the London School of Oriental and African Languages on the occasion of his retirement. Half the articles are concerned with …
Copulae in the Arabic Noun Phrase
A Unified Analysis of Arabic Adnominal Markers
Inbunden, 2013
2808 kr
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Morphemes combined with the Arabic noun are clearly described in the literature, but their interpretation can be somewhat nebulous, and a unified scholarly analysis does not as yet exist. This book proposes a new and unified perspective regarding these morphemes, analyzing them as copulae, and the …
Arabic Script in Africa
Studies in the Use of a Writing System
Av Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh
Inbunden, 2014
2971 kr
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The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions, which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla …
Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic
Av Hezy Mutzafi
Inbunden, 2014
2419 kr
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Neo-Mandaic is the last phase of a pre-modern vernacular closely related to Classical Mandaic, a Mesopotamian Aramaic idiom of Late Antiquity. This unique language is critically endangered, being spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, the only gnostic religion to have survived until the …
