ISBN: 9789652239921 - studies in semitic linguistics (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 664 pages ; 25 cm. Collected in this volume are articles published over the last three decades, which deal with various aspects of Semitic languages in general, the structure of Hebrew, history of Arab grammatical tradition, Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic, Syriac syntax, and particularly with Ethiopian languages (Amharic and Old Amharic Gurage, Harari and Comparative Ethiopian). While discussing general, language-specific and comparative issues, special attention is devoted in these studies to syntax, to the examination of linguistic methodology and to the contribution of Semitics to the Science of language. Chiefly English; two articles in French. CONTENTS : General and comparative. The contribution of Semitic languages to linguistic thinking -- Principles of Semitic word-structure -- Attribution in Semitic languages -- Tautological infinitive -- Imperfectly-transformed cleft sentences -- Congruence and comitative and a problem of linguistic typology -- Syntactic relations and typology in Semitic languages -- Hebrew. On verbal structure and the Hebrew verb -- On direct speech and the Hebrew Bible -- Arabic grammar. Subject and predicate in Arab grammatical tradition -- Alladī al-Maṣdariyyah in Arab grammatical tradition -- Ethiopian and South-Arabian. The Semitic languages of Ethiopia and their classification -- Comparative dictionary of the Ethiopic language -- Nominalization in Amharic and Harari : adjectivization -- Studies in Amharic syntax -- "Oneself", "one's own" and "one another" in Amharic -- Les mémoires d'Aläqa Lämma et l'étude de l'amharique parlé -- A copula . in Old Amharic -- Notes on Harari -- Linguistic interest in Gurage and the Gurage etymological dictionary -- L'étude du gouragué et la comparaison chamito-sémitique -- Kestaneňňa : studies in a northern Gurage language of Christians -- The modern South Arabian prefix-conjugation -- Syriac and Neo-Aramaic. On Syriac sentence-structure -- On some niceties of Syriac syntax -- On predicative adjectives and Syriac syntax -- Bible translations and Syriac idiom -- Aramaic perfects -- Otto Jastrow's Der neuaramäische Dialekt von Hertevin : a review article.…