Butts, Aaron.

Semitic Languages in Contact. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (453 pages) - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Series ; v.82 . - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- A Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order -- Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient Contact Features in Ge'ez and Amharic -- Hebrew Adverbialization, Aramaic Language Contact, and mpny ʾšr in Exodus 19:18 -- The Distribution of Declined Participles in Aramaic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Aramaic Translations -- The Proto-Semitic "Asseverative *la-" and the Innovative 1SG Prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Languages -- Egyptianizing Features in Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions from Egypt -- Head-Marking in Neo-Aramaic Genitive Constructions and the ezafe Construction in Kurdish -- Notes on Foreign Words in Hatran Aramaic -- Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE -- Inner-Semitic Loans and Lexical Doublets vs. Genetically Related Cognates -- Structural Change in Urban Palestinian Arabic Induced by Contact with Modern Hebrew -- Language Contact as Reflected in the Consonant System of Ṭuroyo -- Lexical Borrowings in the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale -- Possible Ugaritic Influences on the Hurrian of Ras Shamra-Ugarit in Alphabetic Script -- The Lexical Component in the Aramaic Substrate of Palestinian Arabic -- The Classification of Hobyot -- Expression of Attributive Possession in Tunisian Arabic: The Role of Language Contact -- Aramaic Loanwords in Gǝʿǝz -- Language Contact between Akkadian and Northwest Semitic Languages in Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age -- Semitic Languages in Contact-Syntactic Changes in the Verbal System and in Verbal Complementation -- Index.

This volume contains twenty case studies analysing various aspects of language contact involving ancient and modern Semitic languages.

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Semitic languages-Grammar, Comparative.
Semitic languages-Grammar.
Languages in contact.


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