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1)<br>Date:01 May 2013<br>From:reposted from LINGUIST<br>Subject:New Book:Case in Semitic<br><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Title: Case in Semitic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subtitle: Roles, Relations, and Reconstruction</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Series Title: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Publication Year: 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Publisher: Oxford University Press</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Book URL: </span><a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199671809.do" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199671809.do</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Author: Rebecca Hasselbach</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hardback: ISBN: 9780199671809 Pages: 384 Price: U.K. £ 65.00</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstract:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This book sets out a new reconstruction for the Semitic case system. It is</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">based on a detailed analysis of the expression of grammatical roles and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">relations in the attested Semitic languages and, for the first time, brings</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">typological methods to bear in the study of these features in Semitic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">languages and their reconstruction for proto-Semitic. Professor Hasselbach</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">supports her argument with detailed analyses of a wide range of data and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">presents it in a way that will be accessible to both Semitists and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">typologists.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The volume is divided into seven chapters: the first discusses basic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">methodologies used in Semitic linguistics and the limitations thereof. The</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">second presents the evidence for morphological case-marking in the individual</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Semitic languages, the conventional reconstruction of Proto-Semitic, and the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">evidence which conflicts with it. The third introduces typological concepts</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and methods and their deployment in Semitic. Chapter 4 considers the case</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">alignment of early Semitic. Chapter 5 presents a detailed study of marking</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">structures and patterns and considers what these reveal about the nature of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the original case system. Chapter 6 looks at the functions of case markers,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">considers the light they cast on the nominal system, and shows that the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">reconstruction of early Semitic as ergative is implausible. In the final</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">chapter the author argues that early Semitic had a different nominal system</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">from that of the later Semitic languages. She shows that the course of its</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">development has parallels in other Afroasiatic languages, including Berber and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cushitic. Her book sheds important new light on the history of the Semitic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">languages and on the early development of the Afro-Asiatic language family as</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">a whole.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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