Semitic and Indo-European
Volume I: The Principal Etymologies
With observations on Afro-Asiatic
| State University of New York at Binghamton
This volume presents the key examples of morphological correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic languages, afforded by nouns, verbal roots, pronouns, prepositions, and numerals. Its focus is on shared morphology embodied in the cognate vocabulary.
The facts that are brought out in this volume do not fit comfortably within either the Indo-Europeanists or the Semitists conception of the prehistoric development of their languages. Nonetheless they are so fundamental that many would take them for evidence of a single original source, Proto-Nostratic. In this book, however, it is considered unsettled whether proto-IE and proto-Semitic had a common forerunner. But the IE-Semitic combinations testify at least to prehistoric language communities in truly intimate contact.
The facts that are brought out in this volume do not fit comfortably within either the Indo-Europeanists or the Semitists conception of the prehistoric development of their languages. Nonetheless they are so fundamental that many would take them for evidence of a single original source, Proto-Nostratic. In this book, however, it is considered unsettled whether proto-IE and proto-Semitic had a common forerunner. But the IE-Semitic combinations testify at least to prehistoric language communities in truly intimate contact.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 129] 1995. xxii, 514 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface
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vii
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Bibliographical Abbreviations
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xvi
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Introduction
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1
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Chapter I: Non-verbal Nouns and Their Inflections
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13
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Chapter II: Verbal Roots
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131
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Chapter III: Pronouns
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297
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Chapter IV: Prepositions
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366
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Chapter V: Numerals
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401
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Addenda
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456
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Indices
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459
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“No other linguist among our contemporaries would have been able to accumulate such an enormous amount of data so metisculously culled from so many languages of the Indo-European and Semitic (Afroasiatic) phyla (...). Generations can deal with his material by interpreting it according to modern principles of interphyletic comparison.”
Gy. Décsy, Eurasian Studies Yearbook 71 (1999)
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BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General