Hebrew in its West Semitic setting, Vol 2 and 3: Phonology and Morphosyntax

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This work is a comprehensive survey of non-Masoretic Hebrew dialects and traditions against the background of the related, primarily other West Semitic lanugages, but also the less close East and South Semitic and non-Semitic branches of the Semito-Hamitic phylum are taken into account. The previously published Part One contains Hebrew and comparative lexical material. Part Two contains a systematic phonetic and phonological discussion including an historical survey. Part Three contains a discussion of morphological and syntactical aspects as well as a comprehensive statistical synopsis of the entire language structure compared with selected related languages. Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents FOREWORD PART TWO: PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY INTRODUCTION §1. General phonetics and phonology. §2. System of phonemes. §3. Prosodic features. CHAPTER ONE: SYSTEM OF PHONEMES §4. General remarks. §5. The alphabet. §6. Glottals. §7. Pharyngals. §8. Uvular. §9. Velars. §10. Denti-alveolars. §11. Labials. §12. Semivowels. §13. Vowels. CHAPTER TWO: OTHER PHONOLOGICALLY RELEVANT FACTORS §14. General remarks. §15. Qualitative and/or quantitative differences in single phonemes. §16. Accentuation and related phenomena. CHAPTER THREE: INCOMPATIBILITY §17. Sequence of phonemes. §18. Incompatibility. CHAPTER FOUR: HISTORICAL SURVEY §19. Methodological observations. §20. Pre-Semitic system. §21. Origins and development of the proto-Semitic system. §22. Common West Semitic developments. §23. Common North-West Semitic and old Canaanite developments. §24. Phonological comparison of non-Masoretic Hebrew dialects and traditions. §25. Summary and the emerging phonetic rules. APPENDIX: SPECTROGRAMS TO ILLUSTRATE SAMARITAN HEBREW SOUNDS. PART THREE: MORPHOSYNTACTICS INTRODUCTION §1. Preliminary remarks. §2. Basic principles. §3. Some consequences in practice. CHAPTER ONE: SIMPLE PRINCIPAL MORPHEMES §4. General remarks. §5. Proper names. §6. Nominal and verbal roots. §7. Cardinal numerals under 100. §8. Personal pronoun. §9. Demonstrative pronoun. §10. Relative pronouns. §11. Indefinite and interrogative pronoun. CHAPTER TWO: MODIFICATIONAL MORPHEMES a. Separate morphs: particles. §12. Introductory remarks. §13. Adverbs. §14. Prepositions and conjunctions. §15. Relative and determinative particles. §16. Interjections. b. Formation of stems. §17. Nominal types. §18. Verbal stems and voice. c. Inflectional formatives. §19. Nominal afformatives and declension. §20. Verbal pre- and afformatives and conjugation. §21. Functional division of conjugation. CHAPTER THREE: COMPLEX MORPHEMES §22. Introductory remarks. a. Non-predicative units. §23. Nominal phrases. §24. Verbal phrases. §25. Adverbial phrases. §26. Prepositional phrases. b. Sentence. §27. General observations. §28. Nominal sentences. §29. Verbal sentences. §30. Preliminary remarks. §31. Main sentences. §32. Subordinate sentences. CHAPTER FOUR: HISTORICAL SURVEY §33. Preliminary observations. §34. Proper names. §35. Roots. §36. Numerals. §37. Pronouns. §38. Particles. §39. Formation and declension of nouns. §40. Verbal stems and conjugation. §41. Syntactical morphemes. §42. Morphosyntactical summary. COMPREHENSIVE SYNOPSIS a. Introductory observations. b. Comparisons. c. Discussion and conclusions. APPENDICES APPENDIX I: NOMINAL PARADIGMS. APPENDIX II: VERBAL PARADIGMS. APPENDIX III: SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF CHAPTERS 1 TO 10 OF THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY WITH REGARD TO THE FUNCTIONS OF THE AFFORMATIVE CONJUGATION. APPENDIX IV: SYNTACTICAL ANALYSES OF SAMPLES OF NON-MASORETIC HEBREW DIALECTS AND TRADITIONS. APPENDIX V: TIGRÉ TEXT SAMPLE IN TRANSLITERATION. APPENDIX VI: HARSUSI TEXT SAMPLES.