The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook

✍ Scribed by Stefan Weninger (editor); Geoffrey Khan (editor); Michael P. Streck (editor); Janet C. E. Watson (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1297
• Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]; 36
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

• international handbook collecting leading scholars all over the world
• includes an index and extensive reference sections
• one of the most comprehensive reference works for Semitic Linguistics

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   I. Semitic in an Afroasiatic Context
   1. Semitic-Egyptian Relations
   2. Semitic-Berber Relations
   3. Semitic-Chadic Relations
   4. Semitic-Cushitic/Omotic Relations
      II. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic and Models of Classification
   5. Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology
   6. Reconstructive Morphology
   7. Proto-Semitic Lexicon
   8. Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification of the Semitic Languages
      III. The Semitic Languages and Dialects I: Their Typology
   9. Morphological Typology of Semitic
   10. Syntactic Typology of Semitic
       IV. The Semitic Languages and Dialects II: East Semitic
   11. Akkadian in General
   12. Eblaite and Old Akkadian
   13. Babylonian and Assyrian
   14. Akkadian and Sumerian Language Contact
   15. Akkadian as a Diplomatic Language
   16. Akkadian and Aramaic Language Contact
       V. The Semitic Languages and Dialects III: North-West Semitic
   17. Northwest Semitic in General
   18. Amorite
   19. Ugaritic
   20. Phoenician and Punic
   21. Biblical Hebrew
   22. Mishnaic Hebrew
   23. Modern Hebrew
   24. Hebrew as the Language of Judaism
   25. The Re-Emergence of Hebrew as a National Language
   26. Old Aramaic
   27. Imperial Aramaic
   28. Imperial Aramaic as an Administrative Language of the Achaemenid Period
   29. Late Imperial Aramaic
   30. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
   31. Samaritan Aramaic
   32. Christian Palestinian Aramaic
   33. Syriac
   34. Syriac as the Language of Eastern Christianity
   35. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
   36. Mandaic
   37. Western Neo-Aramaic
   38. Turoyo and Mlaḥsô
   39. North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
   40. Neo-Mandaic
   41. Language Contact between Aramaic Dialects and Iranian
   42. Aramaic-Arabic Language Contact
       VI. The Semitic Languages and Dialects IV: Languages of the Arabian Peninsula
   43. Ancient North Arabian
   44. Classical Arabic
   45. Arabic as the Language of Islam
   46. Middle Arabic
   47. Creating a Modern Standard Language from Medieval Tradition: The Nahda and the Arabic Academies
   48. Modern Standard Arabic
   49. Arabic Dialects (general article)
   50. Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula
   51. Arabic Dialects of Mesopotamia
   52. Dialects of the Levant
   53. Dialects of Egypt and Sudan
   54. Arabic in the North African Region
   55. Arabic Sociolinguistics
   56. Arabic Urban Vernaculars
   57. Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles
   58. Berber and Arabic Language Contact
   59. Arabic-Persian Language Contact
   60. Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages
   61. Maltese as a National Language
   62. Ancient South Arabian
   63. Modern South Arabian
       VII. The Semitic Languages and Dialects V: Ethio-Semitic Languages
   64. Ethio-Semitic in General
   65. Old Ethiopic
   66. Tigre
   67. Tigrinya
   68. Tigrinya as National Language of Eritrea and Tigray
   69. Amharic
   70. The Role of Amharic as a National Language and an African lingua franca
   71. Gurage
   72. Harari
   73. Ethiosemitic-Cushitic Language Contact
       Terminological index