The Semitic Languages

An International Handbook
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-018613-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 1287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1878 g

Reihe: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]

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.

Zielgruppe

Libraries and Academic Institutes, Researchers who are interested in Linguistics and Semitics in General, but also Arabic Languages, Africanistic Studies, Egyptology, but also scholars who are interested in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Studies of the Old Testament, Jewish Culture and History and Judaism in General.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weninger, Stefan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Khan, Geoffrey

Streck, Michael P.

Watson, Janet C. E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Weninger, University of Marburg, Germany; Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge, UK; Michael P. Streck, University of Leipzig, Germany; Janet C. E. Watson, University of Salford, UK.