Semitic and Indo-EuropeanJohn Benjamins Publishing, 1 janv. 1995 - 514 pages 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. |
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Chapter I NONVERBAL NOUNS AND THEIR INFLECTIONS | 13 |
Chapter II VERBAL ROOTS | 131 |
Chapter III PRONOUNS | 297 |
Chapter IV PREPOSITIONS | 366 |
Chapter V NUMERALS | 401 |
ADDENDA | 456 |
INDICES | 459 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
accent accusative adjective Akkadian ancient Arabic AsDi attested Attic Avestan Biblical Aramaic Bomhard borrowed Church Slavonic cognate con consonantal correspondence Cushitic dative definite article derived dialect diphthong dual early Egyptian ending etymology evidence feminine forms fricativated fricative Gary Rendsburg gender genitive glottal stop Gothic Greek He brew he/she Hittite Homeric IE and Semitic IE cognates IE languages Illich-Svitych Indo-European Indo-Europeanists InEtWö InEuSeLa initial consonant J. P. Brown labial labio-velar lan guages Latin Levin Lithuanian masc masculine match meaning metathesis Möller morpheme morphological nasal neuter nominative noun numerals occurs Old English Old High German participle pausal phonetic phonology plosive plural Pokorny prefix prehistoric IE preposition pronounced pronunciation Rendsburg root Sanskrit second consonant semantic Semitic and IE Semitic cognates Semitic languages shows sibilant sing Slavic sound stative suffix syllable Targum texts third consonant triconsonantal Trombetti Ugaritic velar verb verb-root vocabulary vocalization voiceless vowel whereas word