Vennemann gen. Nierfeld / Noel Aziz Hanna Germania Semitica

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-030109-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 259, 763 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Germania Semitica explores prehistoric language contact in general, and attempts to identify the languages involved in shaping Germanic in particular. The book deals with a topic outside the scope of other disciplines concerned with prehistory, such as archaeology and genetics, drawing its conclusions from the linguistic evidence alone, relying on language typology and areal probability. The data for reconstruction comes from Germanic syntax, phonology, etymology, religious loan names, and the writing system, more precisely from word order, syntactic constructions, word formation, irregularities in phonological form, lexical peculiarities, and the structure and rules of the Germanic runic alphabet. It is demonstrated that common descent is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for reconstruction. Instead, lexical and structural parallels between Germanic and Semitic languages are explored and interpreted in the framework of modern language contact theory.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and Advanced Students of Linguistics, Indo-European, English, German and other Germanic, and Semitic Languages, Scholars in Related Disciplines, such as Historians, Geneticists, and Archaeologists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vennemann gen. Nierfeld, Theo

Noel Aziz Hanna, Patrizia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Introduction: Methodology of research in prehistoric language contact;13
3;1. Zur Entstehung des Germanischen;23
4;2. English as a “Celtic” language: Atlantic influences from above and from below;55
5;3. Amsel und Merula;65
6;4. Germania Semitica: +abr- ‘strong’, with a reflection on Abraham/Theodoric;71
7;5. Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English;79
8;6. Germania Semitica: +aþal- (OE æðel-, G Adel) ‘nobility’ With an appendix on Gk. At..s;99
9;7. Germania Semitica: Pre-Gmc. +-at- in E maiden, G Magd/ Mädchen, Goth, magaps;115
10;8. Key issues in English etymology;129
11;9. Germania Semitica: Gmc. +drag-, +trek- (Lat. trah-, Gk. t...-);157
12;10. On the rise of ‘Celtic’ syntax in Middle English;169
13;11. Semitic . Celtic . English: The transitivity of language contact;201
14;12. Zur Etymologie von Rauch und riechen;241
15;13. PGmc. +drepa-, G treffen ‘to hit’fg;247
16;14. Germania Semitica: +sibjö;255
17;15. Languages in prehistoric Europe north of the Alps;279
18;16. Syntax und Sprachkontakt: Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der indogermanischen Sprachen des Nordwestens;291
19;17. Note on the etymology of PGmc. +smitan and +smiþaz (E smite, smith, G schmeißen, Schmied, etc.);321
20;18. Sprachgeburt durch Sprachkontakt: Die Entstehung des Englischen;333
21;19. Phol, Balder, and the birth of Germanic;367
22;20. Glauben wir noch an die Lautgesetze? Zur Etymologie von Phol und Balder im Zweiten Merseburger Zauberspruch;383
23;21. The name of the Isle of Thanet;413
24;22. Was Proto-Germanic a creole language?;445
25;23. Münze, mint, and money. An etymology for Latin Moneta With appendices on Carthaginian Tanit and the Indo-European month word;469
26;24. Ne’er-a-face : A note on the etymology of penny, with an appendix on the etymology of pane;489
27;25. A note on the etymology of Germanic +skellingaz ‘shilling’: With an appendix on Latin siliqua ‘a small coin’;507
28;26. Grimm’s Law and loan-words;519
29;27. Germanische Runen und phönizisches Alphabet;551
30;28. Zur Reihung der Runen im älteren Fu{)ark;613
31;29. Semitic influence in Celtic? Yes and No;645
32;30. The source of the Ing rune and of the futhark;657
33;Abbreviations;669
34;References;675
35;Index of Atlantic / Hamito-Semitic etymologies;737
36;Index of Hamito-Semitic words, word forms, and roots;745
37;Index of Vasconic etymologies;749
38;Index of Toponyms;751
39;Subject Index;753

Über Autor(innen)

Theo Vennemann and Patrizia Noel, University of München, Germany.