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Subject: Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages: O'Leary
 

	
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From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages: O'Leary

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Title: Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages 
Series Title: LINCOM Orientalia 05  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu
	
Author: De Lacy O'Leary

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895862410 Pages: 298 Price: Europe EURO 64.80


Abstract:

New Edition

Already in the eleventh Century A.D. the Rabbi Jehuda Hayyug (Abu Zakaria 
Yahya) began to apply the methods of the Arabic grammarians to Hebrew and 
thus unconsciously laid the foundation of the comparative philology of the 
Semitic languages. It was already known that a close relationship existed 
between Aramaic and Hebrew, but it was commonly supposed that Aramaic 
was a corruption from Hebrew. Theological prepossessions inclined the Jews 
to regard Hebrew as the parent, not only of Aramaic and Arabic, but of all 
other languages as well, and this opinion was generally adopted by Christian 
writers also. Even this view, however, admitted that a much closer 
relationship existed between Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic, than between 
Hebrew and any other language; and to this closely related group a fourth 
member, Ethiopic, was added in the seventeenth Century, the name Ethiopic 
being used by Europeans to designate Ge'ez, the ancient classical language 
of Abyssinia. The decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions in the 
nineteenth Century added Babylonian-Assyrian as a fifth member (adopted 
from the introduction of 1928 edition).

Contents:
 I. The Semitic Languages (The Semitic Group, Babylonia and Assyria, 
Canaan, Aramaic, Arabic (Hijaz dialect, Nejd, Iraq, Syria and Palestine, 
Egypt, North Afriea, Malta, Hadramaut, Oman, Southern Arabic), Abyssinian. 
II. The Consonant sounds. 
III. Temporary Modifications of Consonants. 
IV. The Vowels. 
V. Temporary Modifications of Vowel Sounds. 
VI. Temporory Syllabic Changes. 
VII. The Personal Pronoun. 
VIII. Demonstrative Pronouns. 
IX. Relative and Interrogative Pronouns. 
X. The Noun. 
XI. The Verb. 
XII. The particles. 

This re-edition has been published as no. 05 in the LINCOM Orientalia (LIOR) 
series (originally published 1928, London,author's affiliation: Lecturer in 
Aramaic, Bristol University). 

ISBN 9783895862410. LINCOM Orientalia 05. 298pp. 2010. 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Syntax
                     Afro-Asiatic
                     Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken (acm)
                     Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (aii)
                     Amharic (amh)
                     Arabic, Egyptian Spoken (arz)
                     Knaanic (czk)
                     Maslam (msv)
                     Akkadian (akk)
                     Imperial Aramaic (arc)

Language Family(ies): Semitic


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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