The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia

Herausgegeben von Woodard, Roger D.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of a language, and places that language within its proper linguistic and historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780521684989
• ISBN-10: 0521684986
• Artikelnr.: 23184345

Autorenporträt

Woodard, Roger D.
Roger D. Woodard is the Andrew Van Vranken Raymond Professor of the Classics at the University of Buffalo. His numerous publications include The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's foreword Roger D. Woodard; 1. The ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia: an introduction Roger D. Woodard; 2. Ugaritic Dennis Pardee; 3. Hebrew P. Kyle McCarter, Jr.; 4. Phoenecian and Punic Jo Ann Hackett; 5. Canaanite dialects Dennis Pardee; 6. Aramaic Stuart Creason; 7. Ancient South Arabian Norbert Nebes and Peter Stein; 8. Ancient North Arabian M. C. A. MacDonald; Appendix 1. Afro-Asiatic John Huehnergard; Appendix 2. Full table of contents from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.