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Semitic studies
About: Semitic studies is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 240 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2798 citations.
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31 Dec 2000
TL;DR: The main parts of the work are devoted to phonology, morphology, and syntax, with elaborate charts and diagrams, and it takes new material of these last decades into account, and situates the Semitic languages in the wider context of Afro-Asiatic.
Abstract: The first comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, by H. Zimmern, was published a hundred years ago and the last original work of this kind was issued in Russian in 1972 by B.M. Grande. The present grammar, designed to come out in the centenary of the completion of Zimmern's work, fills thus a gap. Besides, it is based on both classical and modern Semitic languages, it takes new material of these last decades into account, and situates the Semitic languages in the wider context of Afro-Asiatic. The introduction briefly presents the languages in question. The main parts of the work are devoted to phonology, morphology, and syntax, with elaborate charts and diagrams. Then follows a discussion of fundamental questions related to lexicographical analysis. The study is supplemented by a glossary of linguistic terms used in Semitics, by a selective bibliography, by a general index, and by an index of words and forms. The book is the result of twenty-five years of research and teaching in comparative Semitic grammar.
224 citations
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27 May 1994
TL;DR: Hoch as discussed by the authors provides a comprehensive account of these words -their likely origins, their contexts, and their implications for the study of Egyptian and Semitic linguistics and Late-Bronze-and Iron-Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean.
Abstract: Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palestine. In this book, James Hoch provides a comprehensive account of these words - their likely origins, their contexts, and their implications for the study of Egyptian and Semitic linguistics and Late-Bronze- and Iron-Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike previous word catalogs, this work consists of concise word studies and contains a wealth of linguistic, lexical, and cultural information. Hoch considers some five hundred Semitic words found in Egyptian texts from about 1500 to 650 B.C.E. Building on previous scholarship, he proposes new etymologies and translations and discusses phonological, morphological, and semantic factors that figure in the use of these words. The Egyptian evidence is essential to an understanding of the phonology of Northwest Semitic, and Hoch presents a major reconstruction of the phonemic systems. Of equal importance is his account of the particular semantic use of Semitic vocabulary, in contexts sometimes quite different from those of the Hebrew scriptures and Ugaritic myths and legends. With its new critical assessment of many hotly debated issues of Semitic and Egyptian philology, this book will be consulted for its lexical and linguistic conclusions and will serve as the basis for future work in both fields.
187 citations
21 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense, not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification.
Abstract: The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.
177 citations
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10 Jun 2013
TL;DR: The Semitic case system: basic evidence and traditional reconstruction as mentioned in this paper, and the function of case markers in Semitic is discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1].
Abstract: Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. The Semitic case system: basic evidence and traditional reconstruction 3. Linguistic Typology 4. Grammatical roles and the alignment of Semitic 5. Head- and dependent-marking in Semitic 6. The function of case markers in Semitic 7. Conclusions Bibliography Indexes of names and subjects
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