Die Entstehung Des Artikels Im Semitischen: Eine 'Phonizische' Perspektive

Gzella, Holger

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“…As a foundation of our research we will use a series of articles written by John Huehnergard himself (2005a, 2007, 2008a or in collaboration with other scholars (Hasselbach & Huehnergard 2007) in which various Central, West and East Semitic features are determined. Other features important for the classification are extracted from studies published by Faber (1997), Gzella (2011), Kouwenberg (2011), and Kogan (2011. We are fully aware of the fact that various features (if not most of them) are still controversial and, thus, their validity for the sub-grouping of Semitic languages may be questioned (for a critical assessment of Huenhergard's features of Central Semitic consult, for instance, Kogan 2015:130-152).…”

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“…11 First, as noted by Gzella (2011) and Streck (2013), the language reflected by the personal names may be much older than the "spoken" Amorite that transpires in the lexical borrowings and non-Akkadian features in Akkadian cuneiform texts. Proper names -be they anthroponyms or toponyms -typically reflect the stage of the language that is older than a contemporaneous variety, written and, especially, the spoken one.…”

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“…26 It should however be noted that the forms of the definite article in Central Semitic languages are quite different. Nevertheless, despite the variety of forms, their syntax is nearly identical, which suggests a possible development from a common ancestor and a shared original underlying form, sometimes reconstructed as a presentative particle (Huehnergard 2005a:184-186; see also Gzella 2006, Weninger 2011. Thus, although "a definite article per se is not a feature of Proto-Central-Semitic, the presentative particle is, as is the beginning of the process that led to an article in the various descendant languages" (Huehnergard forthcoming:12; see also Huehnergard & Rubin 2011:269-270; contra see Hasselbach & Huehnergard 2007:415, who propose that it is unlikely that Proto-Northwest Semitic had a definite article).…”

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Amorite: A Northwest Semitic Language?

Andrason

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2018

Journal of Semitic Studies

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The present paper discusses the problem of the classification of Amorite within the Semitic family. After testing the Amorite corpus of personal names and toponyms for the presence of sixty features that have been proposed as characteristic of the Central, Northwest and East Semitic branches -and viewed as necessary conditions for establishing the relation of a language's belonging to one of these subgroups -the authors conclude that the existing data fail to be conclusive. Since, on the one hand, the available data can link Amorite to the Central, Northwest and East Semitic branches and, on the other hand, as various pieces of evidence are either missing or their interpretation is uncertain, the definite answer to the question of the genetic filiation of Amorite seems to remain beyond the reach of Semitic linguistics. This, in turn, implies that several theories concerning the place of Amorite among Semitic languages should be taken with more caution.1 Most of such proper nouns are names of persons. Names referring to places are significantly less common.

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Section: Amorite and Its Genetic Filiationmentioning

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Amorite: A Northwest Semitic Language?

Andrason

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2018

Journal of Semitic Studies

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“…23 The coda of the article assimilates to both /k/ and /g/ in 18 Pace Voigt 1998;Zaborski 2000. 19 Huehnergard andRubin 2011: 269;Gzella 2006. 20 See Huehnergard and Rubin (2011: 269-70) on the areal status of the article.…”

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On the genetic background of the Rbbl bn Hfʿm grave inscription at Qaryat al-Fāw

Al‐Jallad

2014

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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It is widely believed that the Rbbl bn Hfʿm grave inscription found at Qaryat al-Fāw is the earliest example of Old Arabic. The ten-line inscription – written in the Sabaic script – attests the common Arabic definite article, ʾl, plus several other non-Sabaic linguistic features. I argue that the definite article is not a suitable diagnostic of genetic affiliation, and other features, such as mimation, the conjunction ʿdky, and more, should also be given consideration. Through a close linguistic examination based on the principle of shared morphological innovations, I demonstrate that none of the morphological innovations which characterize Arabic are attested in this inscription. As such, its language is probably not a descendant of proto-Arabic. Our results further suggest that the ʾl- article, which has previously been used as a marker of Arabic, was simply one of many definite article forms which spread to Arabic, and other Semitic languages of Arabia, through areal diffusion.

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“…The definite article ha, according Peretz, whose original function was a deictic or demonstrative, is found in the later books of the Bible as a subordinator before a past tense verb and today is used before a participle in a relative clause. According toGzella (2006), the original function of the definite article ha was subordination.…”

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The meaning and development of the Hebrew scalar modifierkexol

Shefer

2018

Topics in Linguistics

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The purpose of this paper is twofold; first, it aims to explore the variety of interpretations of the partially schematic Hebrew construction kexol as in kexol she’ratsiti (‘as much as I wanted’) within the framework of construction grammar; second, it aims to account for this variety through a demonstration of the interrelation between the grammaticalization of the construction and the process of (inter)subjectification or speech-act orientation. The analysis will show that this interrelation has resulted in considerable internal variation in meaning and function in the present day. Corpus findings reveal that initially kexol functioned as a compound consisting of a preposition and a universal quantifier to denote a relation of similarity and comparison. As a result of speaker orientation, the construction has come to exhibit a higher degree of grammaticality in its function as a scalar modifier. Additional schematic and procedural meanings which developed later seem to be the result of hearer-orientation and discourse-orientation tendencies all subsumed under the cover term speech-act orientation

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Die Entstehung Des Artikels Im Semitischen: Eine 'Phonizische' Perspektive

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Amorite: A Northwest Semitic Language?

Amorite: A Northwest Semitic Language?

On the genetic background of the Rbbl bn Hfʿm grave inscription at Qaryat al-Fāw

The meaning and development of the Hebrew scalar modifierkexol

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