Semitic Languages Outline of a Comparative Grammar (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) - Hardcover

Lipinski, E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042908157 ISBN 13: 9789042908154

Publisher: Peeters, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peeters
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9042908157
• ISBN 13: 9789042908154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 754