Gideon Goldenberg

Gebundenes Buch

Semitic Languages

Features, Structures, Relations, Processes

Beschreibung

This book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic, among them Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic. It describes their history from ancient times to the present, geographical distribution, writing systems, classification, linguistic features, distinctive characteristics, and typological significance.

Autor

Gideon Goldenberg is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1996 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 1999. He has published extensively on Neo-Ethiopian languages, Syriac, Hebrew, and Neo-Aramaic, syntactic relations and typology, and on the history of linguistics in the Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 176mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780199644919
• ISBN-10: 0199644918
• Artikelnr.: 35275275