Author: Publisher:
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Alter Orient und Altes Testament
Author: Alter Orient und Altes Testament (series on Order).
Author: Orient and Occident
Author: Harry A. HoffnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
AOAT
Author: Orient and Occident
Author: Harry A. HoffnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783788704025
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Alter Orient und Altes Testament
Author: Orient and Occident
Author: Harry A. HoffnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Comparative Lexicon of Ugaritic and Canaanite
Author: Issam K. H. HalayqaPublisher: Ugarit Verlag
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
I.K.H. Halayqa investigates lexical correspondences of Ugaritic and Canaanite: "Ugaritic was a spoken and written language in an area adjacent to various Canaanite dialects, such as the language of the El-Amarna letters from the city states in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine and Phoenician in Lebanon. Ugaritic was still a spoken language in the El-Amarna period, to which Old Canaanite belongs. Therefore the generic relationship between Ugaritic and Canaanite cannot be dispensed. It therefore seems appropriate to compare etymologically all the Ugaritic lexemes to those of the Northwest Semitic languages, in particular with the Canaanite branch." "The position of the Ugaritic language among the Northwest Semitic languages remains a question of lively debate. Ugaritic has been grouped with Amorite, Canaanite, Arabic and Old South Arabic. It has even been considered early Hebrew or early Phoenician or has been seen as a separate Northwest Semitic language distinct from Canaanite and Aramaic. Nevertheless, neither general acceptance nor satisfactory classification has been firmly established." "The process of searching and investigating all the possible Canaanite correspondences for 2254 Ugaritic lexemes has lead to the emergence of our lexicon, which contains 1643 certain and uncertain lexemes (1302 + 341) In other words, of 2254 lexemes only 1643 have been found with certain and uncertain Canaanite cognates."
Syntactic Change in Akkadian
Author: Guy DeutscherPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191544833
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Akkadian is one of the earliest attested languages and the oldest recorded Semitic language. It exists in written record between 2500BC and 500BC, much of it in letters and reports concerned with domestic and business matters, and written in colloquial language. It provides a unique and valuable source for the study of linguistic change but which, perhaps because of the impenetrability of its writing system, has rarely been exploited by linguists. In this book, Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of subordinate structures in Akkadian. A case study comprises the first two parts of the book, presenting an historical grammar of sentential complementation. Part I traces the emergence of new structures and describes how the finite complements first emerged in Babylonian. It also explains the grammaticalization of the quotative construction. Part II is a functional history which examines the changes in the functional roles of different structures. It shows how, during the history of the language, finite complements and embedded questions became more widespread, whereas other structures (e.g. infinite complements, parataxis, etc.) receded. Part III seeks to explain the historical developments in a theoretical light, showing how the development in Akkadian is mirrored in many other languages. It goes on to suggest that the emergence of finite complementation may be seen as 'adaptive' and related to the development of more complex communication patterns. This book will be of interest to both specialists and general linguists alike. For specialists it offers a contribution towards a badly-needed historical grammar of the Akkadian language. For general linguists this book will be of interest not only for the questions which it raises about the nature of complementation, but also for the window which it provides on to this little-known language.
A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
Author: Dr Gwendolyn LeickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134641036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology covers sources from Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine and Anatolia, from around 2800 to 300 BC. It contains entries on gods and goddesses, giving evidence of their worship in temples, describing their 'character', as documented by the texts, and defining their roles within the body of mythological narratives; synoptic entries on myths, giving the place of origin of main texts and a brief history of their transmission through the ages; and entries explaining the use of specialist terminology, for such things as categories of Sumerian texts or types of mythological figures.