<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Wed 16 Feb 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: New Book:Intro to Semitic Languages<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 16 Feb 2011<br>From: reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject: New Book:Intro to Semitic Languages<br><br>Title: A Brief Introduction to the Semitic Languages <br>Series Title: Gorgias Handbooks 19 <br><br>Publication Year: 2010 <br>Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <a href="http://www.gorgiaspress.com/">http://www.gorgiaspress.com</a><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><br>Book URL: <a href="http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/p-57244-rubin-aaron-a-brief-introduction-to-the-semitic-languag">http://www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/p-57244-rubin-aaron-a-brief-introduction-to-the-semitic-languag</a> <br><br><br>Author: Aaron D. Rubin<br><br>Paperback: ISBN: 9781617198601 Pages: 110 Price: U.S. $ 36.50<br><br><br>Abstract:<br><br>With a written history of nearly five thousand years, the Semitic languages<br>comprise one of the world's earliest attested and longest attested<br>families. Well known members of the family include Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic,<br>Amharic, and Akkadian. This volume provides an overview of this important<br>language family, including both ancient and modern languages. After a brief<br>introduction to the history of the family and its internal classification,<br>subsequent chapters cover topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, and<br>lexicon. Each chapter describes features that are characteristic of the<br>Semitic language family as a whole, as well as some of the more<br>extraordinary developments that take place in the individual languages.<br>This provides both a typological overview and a description of more unique<br>features. The chapters contain abundant examples from numerous languages.<br>All the examples include morpheme by morpheme glosses, as well as<br>translations, which help make these examples clear and accessible even to<br>those not familiar with a given language. Concluding the book is a detailed<br>guide to further reading, which directs the reader to the most important<br>reference tools and secondary literature, and an up-to-date bibliography.<br>This brief introduction contains a rich variety of data, and covers topics<br>not normally found in short sketches such as this. The clarity of<br>presentation makes it useful not only to those in the field of Semitic<br>linguistics, but also to the general linguist or language enthusiast who<br>wishes to learn something about this important language family. <br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 16 Feb 2011</div></body></html>