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Date: 22-Nov-2012 From: Linda Steglich <linda.steglichdegruyter.com> Subject: Germania Semitica: Vennemann, Hanna (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Germania Semitica Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 259
Editor: Theo Vennemann Editor: Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110301090 Pages: 742 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110300949 Pages: 742 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Abstract:
Germania Semitica explores prehistoric language contact in general, and attempts to identify the languages involved in shaping Germanic in particular. The book deals with a topic outside the scope of other disciplines concerned with prehistory, such as archaeology and genetics, drawing its conclusions from the linguistic evidence alone, relying on language typology and areal probability. The data for reconstruction comes from Germanic syntax, phonology, etymology, religious loan names, and the writing system, more precisely from word order, syntactic constructions, word formation, irregularities in phonological form, lexical peculiarities, and the structure and rules of the Germanic runic alphabet. It is demonstrated that common descent is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for reconstruction. Instead, lexical and structural parallels between Germanic and Semitic languages are explored and interpreted in the framework of modern language contact theory.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Language Contact
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