Author : Gábor Takács
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Africanists
ISBN :
Author : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027287228
This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1045 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 900416412X
This is the third and final volume of the Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian. It comprises the Egyptian words with initial m-. The amount of material offered, the extensive treatment of scholarly discussions on each item, and the insights into the connections of Egyptian and the related Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) languages, including many new lexical parallels, will make it an indispensable tool for comparative purposes and an unchallenged starting point for every linguist in the field.The reader will find the etymological entries even more detailed than those of the introductory volume, due to the full retrospective presentation of all etymologies proposed since A. Erman's time, and thanks to an extremely detailed discussion of all possible relevant data even on the less known Afro-Asiatic cognates to the Egyptian roots.
Author : A. B. Dolgopolʹskij
Publisher : Dietrich Reimer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
The volume is a collection of contributions by colleagues from Europe and North America to celebrate the 75th jubilee of two outstanding scholars in the domain of Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics. They are Professor Aharon B. Dolgopolsky (Haifa) and Professor Herrmann Jungraithmayr (Frankfurt am Main). who have so much in common in their approach to a better reconstruction of Semito-Hamitic. These studies by well-known specialists of Semitic, Berber, Cushitic and Omotic as well as Chadic linguistics are both comparative and descriptive in nature and focus primarily on the lexicon.
Author : Stefan Weninger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110251582
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.
Author : Marvin Lionel Bender
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Afroasiatic languages
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Mario Fales
Publisher : Sargon
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN :
