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The handbook of 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.
The series Handbook of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.
1 Introduction Stefan Weninger Geoffrey Khan Michael P. Streck Janet C. E. Watson 1
I Semitic in an Afroasiatic Context
2 Semitic-Egyptian Relations Gábor Tákacs 7
3 Semitic-Berber Relations Vermondo Brugnatelli 18
4 Semitic-Chadic Relations H. Ekkehard Wolff 27
5 Semitic-Cushitic/Omotic Relations David L. Appleyard 38
II Reconstructing Proto-Semitic and Models of Classification
6 Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology Leonid Kogan 54
7 Reconstructive Morphology Stefan Weninger 151
8 Prpto-Semitic Lexicon Leonid Kogan 179
9 Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification of the Semitic Languages John Huehnergard Aaron D. Rubin 259
III The Semitic Languages and Dialects I: Their Typology
10 Morphological Typology of Semitic Orin D. Gensler 279
11 Syntactic Typology of Semitic Michael Waltisberg 303
IV The Semitic Languages and Dialects II: East Semitic
12 Akkadian in General Bert Kouwenberg 330
13 Eblaite and Old Akkadian Michael P. Streck 340
14 Babylonian and Assyrian Michael P. Streck 359
15 Akkadian and Sumerian Language Contact Gábor Zólyomi 396
16 Akkadian as a Diplomatic Language Wilfred H. van Soldt 405
17 Akkadian and Aramaic Language Contact Michael P. Streck 416
V The Semitic Languages and Dialects III: North-West Semitic
18 Northwest Semitic in General Holger Gzella 425
19 Amorite Michael P. Streck 452
20 Ugaritic Dennis Pardee 460
21 Phoenician and Punic Wolfgang Röllig 472
22 Biblical Hebrew Lutz Edzard 480
23 Mishnaic Hebrew Moshe Bar-Asher 515
24 Modern Hebrew Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald 523
25 Hebrew as the Language of Judaism Angel Sáenz-Badillos 537
26 The Re-Emergence of Hebrew as a National Language Yael Reshef 546
27 Old Aramaic Frederick Mario Fales 555
28 Imperial Aramaic Holger Gzella 574
29 Imperial Aramaic as an Administrative Language of the Achaemenid Period Margaretha Former 587
30 Late Imperial Aramaic Holger Gzella 598
31 Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Michael Sokoloff 610
32 Samaritan Aramaic Abraham Tal 619
33 Christian Palestinian Aramaic Matthew Morgenstern 628
34 Syriac John F. Healey 637
35 Syriac as the Language of Eastern Christianity Françoise Briquel Chatonnet 652
36 Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Michel Sokoloff 660
37 Mandaic Bogdan Burtea 670
38 Western Neo-Aramaic Werner Arnold 685
39 Turoyo and Mlahsô Otto Jastrow 697
40 North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Geoffrey Khan 708
41 Neo-Mandaic Charles G. Häberl 725
42 Language Contact between Aramaic Dialects and Iranian Olga Kapeliuk 738
43 Aramaic-Arabic Language Contact Stefan Weninger 747
VI The Semitic Languages and Dialects IV: Languages of the Arabian Peninsula
44 Ancient North Arabian Hani Hayajneh 756
45 Classical Arabic Jan Retsö 782
46 Arabic as the Language of Islam Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem 811
47 Middle Arabic Geoffrey Khan 817
48 Creating a Modern Standard Language from Medieval Tradition: The Nahda and the Arabic Academies Dagmar Glaß 835
49 Modern Standard Arabic Karin C. Ryding 844
50 Arabic Dialects (general article) Janet C. E. Watson 851
51 Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula Janet C. E. Watson 897
52 Arabic Dialects of Mesopotamia Shabo Talay 909
53 Dialects of the Levant Samia Naïm 920
54 Dialects of Egypt and Sudan James Dickins 935
55 Arabic in the North African Region Christophe Pereira 954
56 Arabic Sociolinguistics Jonathan Owens 970
57 Arabic Urban Vernaculars Catherine Miller 982
58 Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles Xavier Luffin 990
59 Berber and Arabic Language Contact Mohand Tilmatine 1001
60 Arabic-Persian Language Contact Dénes Gazsi 1015
61 Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages Lutz Edzard 1022
62 Maltese as a National Language Albert Borg 1033
63 Ancient South Arabian Peter Stein 1042
64 Modern South Arabian Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle 1073
VII The Semitic Languages and Dialects V: Ethio-Semitic Languages
65 Ethio-Semitic in General Stefan Weninger 1114
66 Old Ethiopic Stefan Weninger 1124
67 Tigre Didier Morin 1142
68 Tigrinya Rainer Voigt 1153
69 Tigrinya as National Language of Eritrea and Tigray Rainer Voigt 1170
70 Amharic Ronny Meyer 1178
71 The Role of Amharic as a National Language and an African lingua franca Ronny Meyer 1212
72 Gurage Ronny Meyer 1220
73 Harari Ewald Wagner 1257
74 Etbiosemitic-Cushitic Language Contact Joachim Crass Ronny Meyer 1266
Terminological index 1277
Overview
The handbook of 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, ...