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Author : Daniel Birnstiel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783447198233
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Re-engaging Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies written by Daniel Birnstiel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Birnstiel
Publisher : Harrassowitz
ISBN 13 : 9783447111188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Re-engaging Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies written by Daniel Birnstiel and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume has largely emerged from a section on "Comparative Semitic and Arabic studies" at the conference "Horizons of Islamic Theology", which was held at Goethe University Frankfurt in September 2014. It comprises five contributions and covers an area reaching from general and comparative Afro-Asiatic syntax to South Arabian phonology to diachronic and synchronic Arabic linguistics. Ahmad Al-Jallad explores the diagnostic features the languages commonly bundled as Ancient North-Arabian and discusses their relationship with Arabic. Daniel Birnstiel investigates the meaning of the Qur'anic term mubin from a synchronic linguistic perspective. Lutz Edzard discusses various functions of the Arabic accusative and demonstrates how they can be analyzed as marked nominatives from a comparative Afro-Asiatic and Semitic perspective. Phillip Stokes traces the history of the common Arabic dialectal relative marker illi and he adduces evidence suggesting a derivation from the definite article *al followed by a plural demonstrative *'ulay. Janet Watson and Abdullah Musallam al-Mahri look at word stress in Mehri from the perspective of stratal optimality theory and show how the rules determining Mehri word stress may be analyzed as combinations of lexical stress and the interaction of constraints.
Author : Patrick R. Bennett
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060213
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Comparative Semitic Linguistics written by Patrick R. Bennett and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title indicates, this unique resource is a manual on comparative linguistics, with the examples taken exclusively from Semitic languages. It is an innovative volume that recalls the earlier tradition of textbooks of comparative philology, which, however, exclusively treated Indo-European languages. It is suited for students with at least a year of a Semitic language. By far the largest component of the book are the nine wordlists that provide the data to be manipulated by the student. Says reviewer Peter Daniels, the wordlists "constitute a unique resource for all of comparative linguistics--a considerable quantity of uniform data from a host of related languages. They would be useful for any class in comparative linguistics, not just for those interested specifically in Semitic." Scattered throughout the text are 25 exercises based on the wordlists that provide a good introduction to the methods of comparativists. Also included are paradigms of the phonological systems of ten Semitic languages as well as Coptic and a form of Berber. A bibliography that guides the student into further reading in Semitic linguistics completes the volume.
Author : Aharon Maman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047404750
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Comparative Semitic Philology in the Middle Ages written by Aharon Maman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with medieval comparative Semitic philology (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) as practised by Hebrew philologists in the Arabic speaking lands, from Iraq to Spain, discussing its development through the generations, its technics and its theoretical basis. This research is based upon an analysis of over ten thousand occurrences of comparisons in linguistic works, biblical commentaries and the like, made by fourteen Hebrew scholars from the 10th-12th centuries CE, among them Saʿadiah Gaon, Judah b. Quraysh, David b. Abraham Alfasi, Jonah b. Janah and Isaac b. Barūn. Several aspects of this comparisons are presented and studied here for the first time.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081418
Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally revered as the literal word of God, the Qur’an serves as Islam’s sacred book of revelation. Accordingly, its statements and pronouncements rest at the core of the beliefs and teachings that have inexorably defined expressions of the Islamic faith. Indeed, over the centuries, engaging with and poring over the contents of the Qur’an inspired an impressive range of traditional scholarship. Notwithstanding its religious pre-eminence, the Qur’an is also considered to be the matchless masterpiece of the Arabic language and its impact as a text can be discerned in all aspects of the Arabic literary tradition. Presenting contributions from leading experts in the field, The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies offers an authoritative collection of chapters that guide readers through the gamut of themes, subjects, and debates that have dominated the academic study of the Qur’an and its literary heritage. These range from chapters that explore the text’s language, vocabulary, style, and structure, to detailed surveys of its contents, concepts, transmission, literary influence, historical significance, commentary tradition, and even the scholarship devoted to translations. With the aim of serving as an indispensable reference resource, the Handbook assesses the implications of research discourses and discussions shaping the study of the Qur’an today. There exists no single volume devoted to such a broad review of the scholarship on the Qur’an and its rich commentary tradition.
Author : Lutz Edzard
Publisher : Harrassowitz
ISBN 13 : 9783447104227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized written by Lutz Edzard and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Festschrift dedicated to Jan Retso on the occasion of his official retirement in 2015 contains within the field of Arabic and Semitic linguistics and neighboring disciplines 29 papers by the following contributors: Slavic linguistics: Silje Susanne Alvestad and Antoaneta Granberg; Arabic linguistics and philology: Werner Arnold, Rudolf de Jong, Werner Diem, Melanie Hanitsch, Barry Heselwood/Janet Watson, Otto Jastrow, Ablahad Lahdo, Pierre Larcher, Gunvor Mejdell, Maria Persson and Ori Shachmon; Arabic literature, science and history of ideas: Lena Ambjorn, Stephan Guth, Pernilla Myrne and Georges Tamer; Hebrew linguistics: Silje Susanne Alvestad/Lutz Edzard, Mats Eskhult, Steven Fassberg, Bo Isaksson, Na'ama Pat-El, and Ofra Tirosh-Becker; Aramaic, Ethiopic, and comparative Semitic linguistics: Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Janne Bondi Johannessen/Lutz Edzard, Geoffrey Khan, Fekede Menuta/Ronny Meyer, Sina Tezel and Kjell Magne Yri. The Festschrift is of interest to both scholars and students working in the disciplines of Arabic, Hebrew, Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics and to linguists and philologists working in the realms of Old Church Slavonic, Slavic in general, Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004392009
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Syntax written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we’ll eat the pudding.” This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.
Author : Salam Hawa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429755554
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Reimagining Arab Political Identity written by Salam Hawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the idea that Arab cultural and political identity has been suppressed by centuries of dominance by imperial outsiders and by religious and nationalist ideologies with the result that present day Arab societies are characterised by a crisis of identity where fundamentalism or chaos seem to be the only available choices. Tracing developments from pre-Islamic times through to the present, the book analyses the evolution of Arab political identity through a multi-layered lens, including memory and forgetting, social and cultural norms, local laws, poetry, dance, attitudes to women, foreigners and animals, ancient historical narratives and more. It argues that Arab societies have much to gain by recovering the "happy memory" of Arab culture as it was before being distorted.
Author : Mahmoud Azaz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902725494X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV written by Mahmoud Azaz and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together eleven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The contributions fall under three areas of linguistics: Phonology and phonetics; syntax and semantics; and language acquisition, language contact, and diglossia. They reflect some various perspectives and emphases. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties, Standard Arabic, as well as Arabic varieties spoken in diaspora, these articles address issues that range from sibilant merging, raising, lexicalization, agreement, to diglossia, dialect contact, and language acquisition in heritage speakers. The book is valuable reading for linguists in general and for those working on descriptive and theoretical aspects of Arabic linguistics in particular.
Author : Stefano Manfredi
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961102511
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Arabic and contact-induced change written by Stefano Manfredi and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a synthesis of current expertise on contact-induced change in Arabic and its neighbours, with thirty chapters written by many of the leading experts on this topic. Its purpose is to showcase the current state of knowledge regarding the diverse outcomes of contacts between Arabic and other languages, in a format that is both accessible and useful to Arabists, historical linguists, and students of language contact.
Author : Eugenio Garosi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110740826
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Projecting a New Empire written by Eugenio Garosi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients erscheinen als Supplement der Zeitschrift Der Islam, gegründet 1910 von Carl Heinrich Becker, einem der Väter der modernen Islamwissenschaft. Ganz im Sinne Beckers ist das Ziel der Studien die Erforschung der vergangenen Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients, ihrer Glaubenssysteme und der zugrundeliegenden sozialen und ökonomischen Verhältnisse, von der Iberischen Halbinsel bis nach Zentralasien, von den ukrainischen Steppen zum Hochland des Jemen. Über die grundlegende philologische Arbeit an der literarischen Überlieferung hinaus nutzen die Studien die archivalischen, sowie materiellen und archäologischen Überlieferungen als Quelle für die gesamte Bandbreite der historisch arbeitenden Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.
Author : John Huehnergard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042965538X
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Semitic Languages written by John Huehnergard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-by-word 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.
Author : Enam Al-Wer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317525000
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics written by Enam Al-Wer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics comprises 22 chapters encompassing various aspects in the study of Arabic dialects within their sociolinguistic context. This is a novel volume, which not only includes the traditional topics in variationist sociolinguistics, but also links the sociolinguistic enterprise to the history of Arabic and to applications of sociolinguistics beyond the theoretical treatment of variation. Newly formed trends, with an eye to future research, form the backbone of this volume. With contributions from an international pool of researchers, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Arabic sociolinguistics, as well as to linguists interested in a concise, rounded view of the field.
Author : Hani Hayajneh
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643912528
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Cultural Heritage written by Hani Hayajneh and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human heritage is an endless mine of knowledge, skills, ethos and accomplishments, which visualize and examine the power of human creativity and innovation throughout the history. The contributions cast an insight into the human psyche to perceive its Weltanschauung, and its way of thinking and making artefacts associated with knowledge, existence and identity in the context of other existing systems in the world. They demonstrate the diversity of topics as well as the state-of-the art of interdisciplinary approaches that participants of the Humboldt-Kolleg use in their research on cultural heritage, and confirm, once again, that the strengths of the Alexander von Humboldt Network should be celebrated and honoured. The present volume invites us to seek more novel research approaches that aim towards an understanding of the complex nature of human inheritance.
Author : Robert R. Ratcliffe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027236739
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The "broken" Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic written by Robert R. Ratcliffe and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic historical linguistics: the highly allomorphic system of 'stem-internal' or 'broken' plurals. It shows that widely-accepted views regarding the historical development of this system are untenable and offers a new hypothesis. The first chapter lays out a methodology for comparative-historical research in morphology. The next two chapters present an analysis of Arabic morphology based on contemporary formal linguistic approaches, and applies this analysis to the noun plural system. Chapter Four shows that neither semantic shift nor ablaut-type sound change account adequately for the data. The fifth chapter offers a systematic comparison of the plural systems of Semitic languages, incorporating much new research on the languages of South Arabia and Ethiopia. Chapter Six proposes a new reconstruction.
Author : Martin Zammit
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047400518
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'ānic Arabic written by Martin Zammit and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this analytical work, the lexical relationships between Arabic, based on the Qur'ānic register, and Akkadian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Phoenician Epigraphic, South Arabian and Ge‘ez are established. Its aim is to assess the various degrees of cultural proximity between these Semitic languages.
Author : Fred M. Donner
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
ISBN 13 : 161491074X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Scripts and Scripture written by Fred M. Donner and published by Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a scholarly conference, address different aspects of this question. They include discussions of the religious concepts found in Arabia in the centuries preceding the rise of Islam, which reflect the presence of polytheism and of several varieties of monotheism including Judaism and Christianity. Also discussed at length are the complexities surrounding the way languages of the Arabian Peninsula were written in the centuries before and after the rise of Islam-including Nabataean and various North Arabian dialects of Semitic-and the gradual emergence of the now-familiar Arabic script from the Nabataean script originally intended to render a dialect of Aramaic. The religious implications of inscriptions from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic centuries receive careful scrutiny. The early coalescence of the Qur'an, the kind of information it contains on Christianity and other religions that formed part of the environment in which it first appeared, the development of several key Qur'anic concepts, and the changing meaning of certain terms used in the Qur'an also form part of this rich volume.
