The ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia / edited by Roger D. Woodard.

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Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: 1 online resource (xix, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:

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online resource

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9780511486890 (ebook)

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The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine & Arabia

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409.3 22

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PJ3014 .A53 2008

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Contents:

Language in ancient Syria-Palestine and Arabia : an introduction / Roger D. Woodard -- Ugaritic / Dennis Pardee -- Hebrew / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. -- Phoenician and Punic / Jo Ann Hackett -- Canaanite dialects / Dennis Pardee -- Aramaic / Stuart Creason -- Ancient South Arabian / Norbert Nebes and Peter Stein -- Ancient North Arabian / M.C.A. MacDonald -- Appendix 1. Afro-Asiatic / John Huehnergard.

Summary: This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.

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This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.