2019 Introduction to the Semitic Languages and Their History (original) (raw)

2019, The Semitic Languages, 2nd ed.

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The paper provides a detailed introduction to the Semitic languages, examining their historical development, classification, and morphological features. It discusses the complexities of these languages concerning their internal subgrouping and the transliteration conventions used when studying their consonantal systems. The authors also highlight syntactic structures unique to Semitic languages, illustrating differences in linguistic properties such as definiteness and verbal derivation.

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2019 The Semitic Languages, 2nd ed.

The Semitic Languages, 2nd ed., 2019

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-byword 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.

Comparative & Historical Semitic Linguistics.Part I (draft)

This PDF is a draft of Part I of an in-progress textbook on comparative and historical Semitic linguistics, which will be published in the open-access series Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures. My sincere thanks to the general editor of CSLC, Geoffrey Khan, for his kind permission to make this first part of the book available to students and colleagues while the rest of the book is in preparation.

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2017 Arabic in Its Semitic Context

Arabic in Context, Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University, ed. Ahmad Al-Jallad. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 89. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2017