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Author: Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9004370021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking study examines the historical development of the Semitic languages from the point of view of grammaticalization, the linguistic process whereby lexical items and constructions lose their lexical meaning and serve grammatical functions.
Author: Mohssen Esseesy
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-08-18
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9004187634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrevious scholarship on Arabic prepositions typically has presented these as a static closed class of words. Inevitably, such a treatment does not take into account the diachronic development of prepositions into new functions in syntax, semantics and discourse. The present study applies grammaticalization theory to the analysis of prepositions and subordinators across varieties of Arabic. It goes beyond the traditional single-word focus and treats prepositions as parts of multiword complexes. Drawing upon a sizeable base of authentic historical and present-day Arabic data, it presents a rigorously descriptive and quantitative analysis of evolutionary processes involving prepositional forms and subordinators.
Author: Tarsee Li
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9004175148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains the verbal system of the Aramaic of Daniel in the context of current research on grammaticalization, which, though first mentioned by Meillet in 1912, did not flourish until the beginning of the 1980 s, and has only more recently been applied to the study of Ancient Near Eastern languages. Although various aspects of the Aramaic of Daniel have been subject of numerous studies, including a few exhaustive studies on the verbal system in the last century, it remains among the most difficult to explain. The explanation offered here is coherent with the historical development of Aramaic as well as the observable tendencies in the development of human languages in general.
Author: Lutz Edzard
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783447054416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers collected in this volume cover topics from the theoretical perspectives on Semitic linguistics to the practical application of philological methods to various texts. Michael G. Carter opens with some deliberations on Arabic linguistics in its Islamic context. Jan Retso reinvestigates the question of the origins of Arabic dialects. Werner Arnold offers some glimpses of the Arabic dialects in the Tel Aviv region. Janet Watson, Bonnie Glover Stalls, Khalid al-Razihi and Shelagh Weir describe aspects of Razihit, a language variety spoken in north-west Yemen. Sven-Olof Dahlgren presents some statistics on sentential negation in Quranic Arabic. Rosmari Lillas-Schuil deals in-depth with the stylistic . gure hendiadys in Biblical Hebrew. Geoffrey Khan sheds new light on compound verbal forms in north-eastern Neo-Aramaic. Kjell Magne Yri examines the grammaticalization of nouns as postpositions in Amharic. Lutz Edzard analyzes various types of compound formations in Modern Semitic. Pernilla Myrne offers some thoughts on the gender-specific use of sexual vocabulary by women in Classical Arabic. Judith Josephson investigates the Hellenistic heritage of the zan diqa 'heretics'. Gunvor Mejdell gives an overview of the use of the vernacular in modern Egyptian literature. Finally, Tetz Rooke looks at cross-cultural issues in connection with translation problems from Arabic into European languages.
Author: Heiko Narrog
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 019879584X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes converge and differ across languages and language areas. Chapters systemically explore these processes languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages, revealing a number of unique pathways as well as shared features.
Author: Bettina Leitner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-18
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9004510249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first comprehensive description of the Arabic variety spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. It contains a detailed description of its grammar based on fieldwork data with numerous examples and a collection of authentic texts.
Author: Rebecca Hasselbach
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 019967180X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reconstructs the Semitic case system, based on a detailed analysis of the expression of grammatical roles and relations in the attested Semitic languages. It brings typological methods to bear on the study of comparative Semitics and includes detailed analyses of a wide range of data. The book will interest Semiticists and typologists.
Author: Matthias Brenzinger
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9004274294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and - by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language - on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualization and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain.
Author: Yoo-Ki Kim
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9004370064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the tautological infinitive construction in Classical Biblical Hebrew in order to give a coherent and consistent explanation of its function.
Author: Elisha Qimron
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9004370056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1986, Elisha Qimron published the first comprehensive study of the Hebrew language of the scrolls from Qumran, examining the orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language. Over twenty years later, his work remains the standard reference on the subject.
