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1 online resource |
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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 80 |
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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 80.
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| Contents |
Preface; Sigla; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. Writing in the Ḥarrah; 1.2. Language; 1.3. The Dating and Authors of the Inscriptions; 1.4. A Safaitic People?; 1.5. Distribution of the Inscriptions; 1.6. Text Genres and Text Editions; Chapter 2. Script and Orthography; 2.1. The Glyphs; 2.2. Characteristics of the Individual Glyphs; 2.3. Orthography; Chapter 3. Phonology and Phonetics; 3.1. Consonants; 3.2. Vowels; 3.4. Sound Changes; Chapter 4. Nominal Morphology; Overview; 4.1. Gender; 4.2. Onomastica; 4.3. Diminutives; 4.4. Number; 4.5. State; 4.6. Case |
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4.7. Nominal Derivation4.8. Determination and Deixis; 4.9. The Demonstrative Pronouns; 4.10. Relative-Determinative Pronoun; 4.11. Indefinite Relative; 4.12. Quantifiers; 4.13. Numerals; 4.14. Personal Pronouns; Chapter 5. The Verb; Overview; 5.1. Suffix Conjugation; 5.2. Prefix Conjugation; 5.3. Infinitive; 5.4. Imperative; 5.5. Participles; 5.6. Verb Stems; Chapter 6. Adjectives and Agreement; 6.1. General Remarks on Adjectives; 6.2. Elatives and CVCCān Adjectives; 6.3. Verbal Agreement; 6.4. Pronominal Agreement; Chapter 7. Prepositions; Overview; Chapter 8. Adverbs; 8.1. Negative Adverbs |
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8.2. Local AdverbsChapter 9. Vocative Particles; Chapter 10. Other Particles; Chapter 11. Conjunctions; 11.1. Coordinating Conjunctions; 11.2. Subordinating Conjuctions; 11.3. The Complementizer n; Chapter 12. Verbless Clauses; 12.1. Existential Clauses; 12.2. Possessive Predication; 12.3. Locative Predication; 12.4. Equational Sentences; Chapter 13. Verbal Clauses; 13.1. Main Clauses with Indicative Verbs; 13.2. Clauses with Pragmatic Optatives; 13.3. The Vocative and Imperative; Chapter 14. The Syntax of Adverbs; 14.1. Adverbs of Specification; 14.2. Adverbs of Circumstance |
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Chapter 15. TopicalizationChapter 16. Syntax of the Infinitive; 16.1. Infinitive Chain; 16.2. Commands; 16.3. The Infinitive to Express Purpose; 16.4. The Infinitive with b-; 16.5. Cognate Infinitive; Chapter 17. Relative and Subordinate Clauses; 17.1. Relative Clauses; 17.2. Purpose and Result Clauses; 17.3. Logically Subordinated Clauses with w and f; Chapter 18. Circumstantial Clauses; Chapter 19. Coordination; 19.1. Sequential Narrative; Chapter 20. Conditional Clauses; Chapter 21. Other Constructions; 21.1. Apposition; 21.2. Cleft Sentences; 21.3. Oaths to Deities |
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Chapter 22. Compositional Formulae22.1. Lineage; 22.2. Spending Time at a Place; 22.3. Building; 22.4. Claiming Authorship of Drawings; 22.5. Inscription Finding and Grieving; 22.6. Funerary; 22.7. Prayers and Curses; 22.8. Time; 22.9. Pasturing; 22.10. Ritual; 22.11. Watering; 22.12. Watch-Keeping and Guarding; 22.13. Waiting; 22.14. Weather; 22.15. Yearning; Chapter 23. Appendix of Inscriptions; (Partial) Bilingual Inscriptions; An Old Arabic Inscription in Greek Characters; Chapter 24. Dictionary; Alphabetic Order; Structure of the Entry; Plates; Bibliography; Index of Tribes |
| Summary |
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary. The grammar is based on a corpus of 33,000 Safaitic inscriptions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Inscriptions, Safaitic.
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Safaliba language -- Grammar
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Inscriptions -- Arabian Peninsula
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Antiquities
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Inscriptions
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Inscriptions, Safaitic
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Language and languages
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Arabian Peninsula -- Antiquities
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Arabian Peninsula -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98000921
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| Subject |
Arabian Peninsula
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004289826 |
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9004289828 |
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