Semitic Languages in Contact

Semitic Languages in Contact contains twenty case studies analysing various contact situations involving Semitic languages. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging to the Modern Arabic, Modern South Arabian, Neo-Aramaic, and Neo-Ethiopian branches of the Semitic family. The topics discussed include writing systems, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The approaches range from traditional philology to more theoretically-driven linguistics. These diverse studies are united by the theme of language contact. Thus, the volume aims to provide the status quaestionis of the study of language contact among the Semitic languages.-- A thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order / Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ali Al-Manaser -- Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient contact features in Ge'ez and Amharic / David Appleyard -- Hebrew adverbialization, Aramaic language contact, and mpny ʼšr in Exodus 19:18 / Samuel Boyd, Humphrey Hardy -- The distribution of declined participles in Aramaic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Aramaic translations / Yochanan Breuer -- The Proto-Semitic Asseverative *la- and the innovative 1SG prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic languages / Maria Bulakh -- Egyptianizing features in Phoenician and Punic inscriptions from Egypt / David Calabro -- Head-marking in Neo-Aramaic genitive constructions and the ezafe construction in Kurdish / Eran Cohen -- Notes on foreign words in Hatran Aramaic / Riccardo Contini, Paola Pagano -- Language, writing, and ideologies in contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the early second millennium BCE / C. Jay Crisostomo -- Inner-Semitic loans and lexical doublets vs. genetically related cognates / Lutz Edzard Structural change in urban Palestinian Arabic induced by contact with modern Hebrew / Uri Horesh -- Language contact as reflected in the consonant system of Turoyo / Otto Jastrow -- Lexical borrowings in the eastern European Hasidic Hebrew tale / Lily Kahn -- Possible Ugaritic influences on the Hurrian of Ras Shamra-Ugarit in alphabetic script / Joseph Lam -- The Lexical component in the Aramaic substrate of Palestinian Arabic / Mila Neishtadt -- The classification of Hobyot / Aaron D. Rubin -- Expression of attributive possession in Tunisian Arabic: the role of language contact / Lotfi Sayahi -- Aramaic Loanwords in Ge'ez / Jürgen Tubach -- Language contact between Akkadian and northwest Semitic languages in Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age / Juan-Pablo Vita -- Semitic languages in contact: syntactic changes in the verbal system and in verbal complementation / Tamar Zewi, Mikhal Oren. edited by Aaron Michael Butts. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.