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The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 42.00A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. more...
Les manuscrits araméens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie vers 450-332 av. J.-C.
BRILL 2007; US$ 290.00This book contains a new epigraphic, philological, legal and historical analysis of the Aramaic manuscripts from the Wadi Daliyeh written in the city of Samaria in the fourth century B.C.E., and shed new light on the history of Samaria and Judaea in the Persian period. more...
Looking Back at al-Andalus
BRILL 2009; US$ 125.00Looking Back at al-Andalus focuses on Arabic and Hebrew Literature that expresses the loss of al-Andalus from multiple vantage points. In doing so, this book examines the definition of al-Andalus literary borders, the reconstruction of which navigates between traditional generic formulations and actual political, military and cultural challenges. By... more...
Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms
BRILL 2008; US$ 223.00Approaches to elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, including linguistics, literature, literary theory, religion, ritual, economics and zoology, as well as related topics in the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine traditions, through the discussion of select terms, concepts and phenomena. more...
Sprachen aus der Welt des Alten Testaments
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 43.13Hauptbeschreibung Die alphabetschriftlichen Sprachen des Alten Orients haben im ersten Jahrtausend v. Chr. in einem bis heute nachwirkenden Siegeszug die Keilschriftsprachen abgelöst. Das neue Konzept der Alphabetschrift erwies sich gegenüber den verbreiteten Silbenschriftsystemen haushoch überlegen. Kein Wunder also, dass die Anfänge der Alphabetschrift... more...
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 188.00This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian. more...
Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 210.00This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Université Paris VII in June 2000. The authors report their latest research on the syntax, morphology, and phonology of quite a number of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya, Coptic Egyptian, Berber, Hausa, Beja, Somali, Gamo).... more...
Interaction of Morphology and Syntax
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 165.00The present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological characteristics across an entire language family or branch,... more...
Sonnenuntergang auf eisig-blauen Wegen
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 46.26A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 71.00A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet accessible overview of the language in which the essential aspects of its phonology, morphology and syntax can be readily looked up and understood. more...









