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Semitic and Indo-European: Volume I: The Principal Etymologies. With Observations on Afro-Asiatic

By Saul Levin

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
1995
ISBN
9781556195839, 9789027236326, 1556195834, 9027236321
LCC
P321 .L47 1995
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11582929 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 129
Edition
1st
Pages
514\541
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Афразийское языкоз

Description

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.

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