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ISBN 978 3 89586 179 6. Moroccan Arabic morphologists, sociolinguists, dialectologists, the Inversion “şawş”, the “nuġ” of traditional,
Secret Languages 08. LINCOM Studies in arabicists, sociologists, graduate and post- popular singers, the butchers’ SL, the youth’s
Afroasiatic Linguistics 24. 188pp. USD 92.90 / graduate students, for instance, focuses on the slang, Gnawa’s SL, prisoners’ SL, Traditional
EUR 75.50 / GBP 64.20. 2008. secretising of a multitude of words, prepositions, Arabic grammar SL, proverbial SL, and fortune-
verbs, phrases, clauses and sentences, for tellers’ SL.
instance. For descriptive convenience, this study All the SLs are respectively illustrated below:
Four Types proposes eight chapters and a detailed “žab” (bring) “žənnərgab”, “kas” (a glass) “sak”,
bibliography. The substitution “ġuş”, which is the “mša” (he went) “fhət”, “εţih ġiŗ l-εđa” (give
of the Moroccan ġuş main concern of this book and which involves him bones only) “εţih εlaš wagəf”, “bənt xayb-a”
thirty-two varieties, operates through the mere (a bad girl) “walima”, “atay” (tea) “šoŗoŗo”,
NASSER BERJAOUI and single replacement of a consonant of the “xəms-in dərhəm” (fifty dirhams) “xəđŗa”, “l-
Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco word by a given consonant of the variety of the εyala-t” (the women) “žamε-u l-muənnat s-
family “x”. In this family of the secret languages salim”, naşəŗ (Nasser, proper name) “nəyya-t l-
This book is a follow-up to our detailed no additional disguise item follows the encoded εma y-şiß-h-a f εūkkāz-u w ŗayy l-ŗa lā t-šəddī-
description and analysis of both corpora and rules word. Thus, the word “kla” (eat), for instance, is h (the blind trusts his walking cane, and disregard
of the Moroccan Arabic secret languages of the encoded in one variety of the substitution “ġuş” the woman’s opinion!), ŗiđ” (he is sick) “gūl”.
Tafilalet (TSLs), namely the “ġuş”. In this work, as “sla” and as “wla” in another one. One For practical purposes, the SLs will be
four families of the TSLs are proposed, together extremely important aspect of the substitution investigated taking into account aspects of their
with their varieties. The types are the x…xxəCC, secret language under study in this work is the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and
the x…xaCi, the x…xaCu and the x…xawiCa crucial effect of the context of use of the discourse analysis.
families. These types, which branch into several language itself on the comprehension of the secret
varieties, function separately. The x…xxəCC encounters, given the total absence of the disguise ISBN 978 3 86288 005 8. LINCOM Studies in
type, for instance, secretises a given word like element, which would stand as the necessary key Afroasiatic Linguistics 31. USD 128.20 / EUR
“mat” (die) as “sat ssəmm” or “fat ffəmm”, for for the genuine deciphering of the encoded word. 104.20 / GBP 88.60. 800 pp. 2010/IV.
instance, depending on the encoding variety of
the family in question. The x…xaCi category ISBN 978 3 89586 190 1. Moroccan Arabic
modifies the same word as “sat sami” and “kat Secret Languages 05. LINCOM Studies in Notes on a Moroccan
kami”. The x…xaCu type changes the word as Afroasiatic Linguistics 21. 160pp. USD 56.00
/ EUR 45.50 / GBP 38.70. 2008.
Arabic Secret Language of
“sat samu” and “bat bamu”. The fourth family,
namely the x…xawiCa “ġuş”, distorts the the Tafilalet: The X…RinCu
relevant word as “tat tawima” and “wat wawima”.
Notes on a Moroccan Family
The present book proposes four parts and eight
chapters describing many of the linguistic aspects Arabic Secret Language: NASSER BERJAOUI
of the TSLs.
The X…RinC Family Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco
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Secret Languages 07. LINCOM Studies in NASSER BERJAOUI The fourth book discusses the rules
Afroasiatic Linguistics 23. 400pp. USD 83.00 Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco governing the varieties of the x…rinCu
/ EUR 67.50 / GBP 57.40. 2008. family of the TSLs.
The second book in the series focuses on
ISBN 978 3 89586 326 4. Moroccan Arabic
The Moroccan Arabic ġuş: the x…rinC family of the TSLs. Secret Languages 04. LINCOM Studies in
Five Categories Afroasiatic Linguistics 19. 144pp. USD 73.20
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NASSER BERJAOUI Secret Languages 02. LINCOM Studies in
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Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco
/ EUR 59.50 / GBP 50.60. 2007. Moroccan Secret
Languages:
So far, twelve families of the Moroccan Arabic
secret languages of the Tafilalet (TSLs), namely
Notes on a Moroccan Evidence from the Patterning and
Arabic Secret Language: the Inversion “ġuş”
the “ġuş”, were investigated in detail in several
works. In this book, emphasis is on five other and
different categories of the TSLs, namely the
The X…RinCa Family NASSER BERJAOUI
x…xawinCa, the x…xaxiCa, the x…xinxaC, the Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco
x…xawiC and the x…ŗaC cases, together with NASSER BERJAOUI
their intricate and numerous varieties. A sample Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco
of two varieties from each of the families above In this work, the ninth in the series, focus will be
respectively encode the word “ktab” (a book) as: The third book in the series presents a detailed on a detailed analysis of seven types of the
“wtab wawinka” and “stab sawinka”, “btab account of the rules governing the varieties of the Moroccan Arabic (MA) “ġuş”, a secret language
babika” and “ptab papika”, “ftab finfak” and x…rinCa family of the TSLs. that spreads in the region of the south-eastern part
“dtab dindak”, “dtab dawik” and “htab hawik”, of Morocco known as the Tafilalet. The seven
“stab ŗak” and “vtab ŗak”. This book is organised ISBN 978 3 89586 325 7. Moroccan Arabic
types to be analysed in this work are: the l-CuCi
in the realm of five parts that analyse the Secret Languages 03. LINCOM Studies in
fuCi/l-CuCəC fuCəC, the mətt-CaCCi, the mətt-
encoding operations in the TSLs with reference to Afroasiatic Linguistics 18. 144pp. USD 73.20 CaCCi trisa, the mətt-CaCCi tifərkusin, the mətt-
several parts of speech and structures. / EUR 59.50 / GBP 50.60. 2007. CaCCi trisa/tifərkusin, the tə-CCiCi wiCi/tə-
CCiCəC wiCəC and the Inversion cases. Seven
ISBN 978 3 89586 189 5. Moroccan Arabic
Secret Languages 06. LINCOM Studies in Secret Languages: parts will constitute the book, with each part
analyzing each of the seven types of the “ġuş”.
Afroasiatic Linguistics 22. 500pp. USD 92.90
/ EUR 75.50 / GBP 64.20. 2008. Evidence from The work separately studies the following aspects
of encodings in the seven secret languages:
Moroccan Arabic sociolinguistic characteristics, the distortion of
The Moroccan Arabic prefixless words, the effect of the encoding
operations on morphologically inflected words,
Substitution ġuş NASSER BERJAOUI the encoding of MA prepositions, the changes at
Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco the level of the syntactic structures in MA, a
NASSER BERJAOUI sample of the daily-like uses of the secret
In this book, we will scrutinize the operations at languages in question through discursive samples,
Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco work in ten Moroccan Arabic (MA) secret a detailed presentation of the rules of the seven
languages (SLs) of the region of El-Jadida, languages, and the delivery of messages rates in
This book, which is the eighth of a series of Morocco. For this purpose, we will target both
works on Moroccan Arabic secret languages, the languages in question. The work is designed
structural SLs (SSLs) and Non-structural secret for students of linguistics, typologists,
proposes an extremely detailed account of the languages (NSSLs). The former category refers to
“ġuş”, a secret language of one region in the sociolinguists and linguists, for instance.
languages that change the structural aspects of
south-east of Morocco, the Tafilalet. The words as in Pig Latin, for instance. The latter is ISBN 978 3 89586 207 6. Moroccan Arabic
language in question contains a rich number of associated with communicative means using non- Secret Languages 09. LINCOM Studies in
varieties. This work, which addresses linguistic structural changes, like the usual slang. SSLs Afroasiatic Linguistics 25. 363pp. USD 92.90
areas of main concern to linguists, phonologists, under scrutiny are: the Pseudo-Infixation “ġawş”, / EUR 75.50 / GBP 64.20. 2009.
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applied to explain the interaction between The government of Morocco is encouraging participle, active participle, plural of paucity,
prosodic phenomena such as syllabification, vernacular literacy and thus is involved in plural of multitude, the feminine noun, and the
epenthesis and affixation, a morphological representing Berber in some sort of written form. phonetic form of a given lexical item. It also
process. To explain, some prosodic words’ final To this end, a thorough phonological analysis is investigates rigorously the different levels of
syllables end in a sequence of three consonants, a essential in order to formulate a practical set of linguistic analysis in the light of the modern
structure not permitted word internally. phonemic characters, or alphabet, for maximal European linguistic theory of text linguistics.
Monoconsonantal coronal nominal affixes and facility in future reading and spelling. Hopefully, Consonance in the Qur’an provides 11
verbal clitics create these sequences. The second this work can assist in this worthy effort. linguistic levels of analysis as well as 10 sub-
chunk of the feminine morpheme /t ----- t/, the levels of Arabic discourse. These include: (i) the
third masculine / feminine object clitics /t/ and ISBN 978 3 89586 129 1. LINCOM Studies in grammatical level which accounts for the
/tt/, the second part of the 2nd person pronoun /t - Afroasiatic Linguistics 26. 183pp. USD 85.40 grammatical features of modification, word order,
-- d/ and the orientation index /d/ give rise to / EUR 69.40 / GBP 59.00. 2008. grammatical form of words, and grammatical
clusters of three consonants when attached to functions of words, (ii) the stylistic level which
nominal and verbal stems respectively. accounts for the stylistic feature of antithesis,
Koptisch - Ein Leitfaden shift in cohesive devices, and selection of words,
ISBN 978 3 89586 138 3. LINCOM Studies in
Afroasiatic Linguistics 20. 180pp. USD 83.00 durch das Saïdische (iii) the lexical level which accounts for lexical
variation, (iv) the semantic level which
/ EUR 67.50 / GBP 57.40. 2008. investigates the semantic componential features
ANDREA EBERLE unter Mitarbeit von of words, semantic connectivity among sentences
REGINE SCHULZ or macro texts, the semantic connectivity between
Texts For Linguistic Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / a word and a leitmotif, and the collocation of
Analysis: Glossed The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore concepts, (v) the phrase level which deals with
the occurrence of refrains, (vi) the contextual
Narratives in Tarifit Berber Coptic, belonging to the Afroasiatic languages, is level which accounts for the impact of context on
the final development of the ancient Egyptian the juxtaposition of leitmotifs, (vii) the co-textual
CLIVE W. MCCLELLAND III language. It is derived from the popular tongue of level which accounts for the grammatical
Liberty University the so called New Empire and uses the Greek construction, stylistic variation, the ad hoc
alphabet complemented with six letters from selection of words, and morphological form of
The value of "raw data" is an essential one: to Demotic, an earlier form of Egyptian writing words, (viii) the thematic level which investigates
provide students and professors linguistic data since the 7th century B.C. the linear order of themes, (ix) the letter and word
that can be examined and analyzed in context, Beginning with the 1st century A.D. Coptic level which accounts for stylistic symmetry and
whether the study is phonological or grammatical. writing started to replace the complicated rhyme phrases, (x) the level of formulaic
This value is profound in the context of current Hieroglyphic system and became the official expressions, and (xi) the phonetic level which
linguistics where "contrived" data devoid of written language during the 3rd century by the accounts for phonological features of words.
context is de rigueur. As much as is possible, spread of Christianity and Christian texts. In Consonance in the Qur’an is a vital source for
analyses ought to be "data-led" where conclusions addition to this, gnostic, Manichaean and profane linguistics and Islamic studies students and for
are suggested after careful and methodical texts are important parts of Coptic literature. researchers. It provides an empirical textual,
investigation. Then one may properly After the Arabian conquest of Egypt in 641 A.D. grammatical, semantic, stylistic, and phonetic
posit well-grounded linguistic theory. and the spread of the Islam, Coptic was analysis of Arabic. Consonance in the Qur’an
Toward furthering these aims, stories from abandoned as colloquial and written language in investigates linguistic structuring at the micro and
Tarifit Berber native speakers were collected over favour of Arabic even by the Christian macro levels of Arabic. In order to show the
a ten year period. They represent a couple of population. Until now Coptic is used as liturgical reader how conceptual and intertextual links are
dialects within the Tarifit-speaking region in language of the Coptic Church. maintained within a text, this book provides a
northeastern Morocco. They are transcribed The present volume is an introduction to textual bird’s-eye view of the thematic and
phonetically, with morpheme-by-morpheme Sahidic Coptic, the starting-point for any coptic leitmotif compartments which are the constituent
glosses, syllable divisions, and a free translation. study. The emphasis has been put on basic units of the macro text.
Along with the printed versions, the sound files matters relevant to the needs of the beginner.
of each of these stories are provided on an The volume contains: the basic structure of the ISBN 3 89586 801 9 (Hardbound). Languages
enclosed compact disk. morphology with special reference to the verbal of the World 34. 334pp. USD 146.70 / EUR
It is hoped that this compilation will provide a system; the principles of the different syntactical 119.30 / GBP 101.40. 2005.
"target-rich" environment for practical linguistic constructions (main and subordinate clauses -
both with translated examples); a sample text with
research for students as well as teachers, and that
this manner of glossing will help set a better interlinear phonetic transcription and translation; Qur’anic Stylistics
standard for presenting linguistic data. Plus text an extensive bibliography with references to more A Linguistic Analysis
as audio files on CD-ROM. specialized literature and an index.
This comprehensive introduction in Coptic is HUSSEIN ABDUL-RAOF
ISBN 978 3 89586 125 3. Languages of the based on the experience of almost a decade of University of Leeds
World/Text Collections 28. 186pp., incl. CD- continuous teaching and was also used
ROM. USD 95.70 / EUR 77.80 / GBP 66.10. successfully for self-studies. (written in German) Stylistic variation is the colourful manifestation
2008. of language. It is an intriguing linguistic
ISBN 3 89586 022 0. Languages of the
World/Materials 07. 109pp. USD 63.80 / EUR phenomenon that can take place at different levels
A Phonological Analysis of 51.90 / GBP 44.10. 2004. of language as it has been found in Qur’anic
genre. Stylistic shift can occur within the
Tarifit Berber sentence boundary at both the micro and the
subtleties underpinning the distinct meanings of Then the Amharic data is analysed within a anew the use of the Perfect at the earlier stages of
two stylistically different but structurally identical cross-linguistic context in order to uncover deep the development of Akkadian. The Perfect being
sentences. A linguistic investigation of the and underlying grammatical properties. The book a component of the single aspect-tense verbal
stylistic patterns of language also unearths the would interest theoretical and descriptive system, its usage was to be studied along with
underlying signification of two stylistically linguists studying the interface between lexical that of the Present and Preterite.
distinct sentences. The present analysis attempts semantics and morphosyntax. As it explores the The detailed analysis of all the verb contexts
to provide an insight into the resourceful stylistic relationship between conceptual structure and in the letters of Hammurapi and in the Code of
and linguistic strategies of Arabic. The book language, the book would also be of interest to Hammurapi has led to the following conclusions.
sharpens up the reader’s awarness of the exotic psycholinguists and researchers interested in the In the texts under discussion as in the Old
stylistic patterns that are semantically-oriented. mental lexicon. Babylonian dialect in general the three
These stylistic structures can be realized through conjugated forms could express the action of any
various linguistic processes that are specific to ISBN 3 89586 404 8. LINCOM Studies in time and aspect. The difference lies, in the first
Arabic. The resourceful mechanism can be a Afroasiatic Linguistics 06. 160pp. USD 83.30 place, in the frequency of their use in this or that
useful linguistic tool to achieve various / EUR 67.70 / GBP 57.60. 2002. aspect-tense function. But this difference is so
communicative functions with different semantic great in a number of cases that one can speak of
significations. The present account of Qur’anic
genre explores how grammatical acceptability and If certain aspect-tense functions as attached to a
particular verb form.
semantic syntax are interrelated to stylistic Conditional Sentences in Comparing Old Babylonian with later
variation in Arabic. This work provides an in- Contemporary Hebrew Structure, Akkadian dialects shows that the aspect-tense
depth explicated analysis of stylistic variation in Meaning, and Usage of Tenses system was constantly changing. It is best seen on
Qur’anic genre. the relations of the Preterite and Perfect within
the past. A clear tendency is observed of the
TALI BAR Perfect becoming the form of the punctive in the
Contents: past in affirmative sentences (or main clauses)
The book deals with Contemporary Hebrew and the Preterite into the form of the punctive in
Linguistic and Stylistic Expressions
Conditional Sentences, classified from a the past in subordinate clauses.
Introduction
structural point of view. The changes within the aspect-tense system
Chapter One: Linguistic and Textual Features of The Hebrew language is rich in conditional were penetrating into the texts of various genres
Qur’anic Discourse expressions, simple and complex. Conditionality not evenly but depending on the closeness of this
is expressed there by various means, specific or that written genre to the spoken language. This
Chapter Two: Syntactic Changes and Stylistic
conjunctions on the one hand, and negators and seems to explain the uneven distribution of the
Variation
adverbial subordinators on the other hand. Perfect in different texts: being an innovation of
2.1 Introduction
Conditional sentences are among the most Akkadian, the Perfect is more frequent in the
2.2 Types of Syntactic Change
complicated of structures. They contain a great texts which are closer to the spoken language.
Chapter Three: Contextual and Co-Textual variety of subtlety of nuances; some constructions It has long been debated on which time and
Factors are transparent, in which the condition is tense should be applied to translate protases of
3.1 Introduction expressed in typical patterns, and in others the the law clauses of the Code of Hammurapi. The
3.2 Context and Lexis conditional meaning is implied from the context. author is of the opinion that most protases of the
3.3 Co-Text and Lexis The tense and mood system there, characterized law clauses of the Code of Hammurapi should be
3.4 Phonetic Factors by complex tenses and by shifting to the past, is translated by the past. Her arguments are as
different from that found elsewhere. These issues follows. The law part of the Code of Hammurapi
Chapter Four: Cohesion Network and Stylistic
are discussed here. as a whole can be considered as the main clause
Shift
The book is aimed and intended to introduce of a complex sentence whose subordinate clause
4.1 Introduction
the structural, semantic, contextual, and stylistic of time placed in the Introduction of the Code of
4.2 Ellipsis
aspects of the Present-Day Hebrew Conditionals. Hammurapi refers to the past. So the main clause
4.3 Substitution
It provides a short presentation of their logical seems to refer to the past as well. When used
Chapter Five: Discourse Variation aspect without being sidetracked to areas together in one šumma-clause of a protasis the
5.1 Introduction irrelevant to the linguistic discussion, and it Preterite as a rule denotes a prior action while the
5.2 Grammatical Incongruity clarifies their boundaries as a linguistic category. Perfect — a posterior one. An analogous
5.3 Semantic Incongruity The description and conclusions are based on phenomenon is observed in the Old Babylonian
5.4 Semantic Redundancy evidence taken from a wide and diverse corpus, letters in sentences (or main clauses) describing
5.5 Selectional Restrictions which gives a comprehensive coverage of the past events. In the subordinate clauses of protases
5.6 Repetition language. Dealing with conditionality, the author the punctive is expressed as a rule by the
also briefly discusses some other important traits Preterite. In Akkadian the punctive of subordinate
Chapter Six: Motifs and Stylistic Patterns
of the language, such as the modal usage of the clauses expressed by the Preterite generally
6.1 Introduction
Hebrew infinitive; the relation between referred to the past.
6.2 Motif and Stylistic Shift
coordination and subordination and general
Conclusion, Bibliography, Index features of the Hebrew tense system. ISBN 3 89586 692 X. LINCOM Studies in
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/ EUR 67.70 / GBP 57.60. 2003. The Maltese Language of
Verb Classes and Australia - Maltraljan
Transitivity in Amharic Use of aspect-tense verbal
forms in Akkadian texts of RODERICK BOVINGDON
MENGISTU AMBERBER the Hammurapi period This is a comprehensive linguistic study of the
The University of New South Wales (1792—1750 B.C.) Maltese language of Australia known as
Maltraljan (Ausmaltese) as it has evolved over
The book provides a detailed analysis of verb the last seventy years of Maltese migration to
classes and transitivity alternations in the GOLDA H. KAPLAN Australia.
Ethiosemitic language Amharic. It investigates Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian The first two chapters outline the historical,
the lexical-semantic and morphosyntactic Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg sociological, political and linguistic framework in
properties of a number of constructions including which this continuing phenomenon has
causatives, passives, applicatives, and experiencer The conjugated forms traditionally named as the developed. A select glossary of some nine
predicates. Present, Preterite and Perfect are the main hundred headwords with several derivations and
The lexical semantic analysis of the verbs components of the Akkadian aspect-tense verbal variations added thereto, comprises chapter three
appeals to the theory of Conceptual Semantics as system. The existence of the Akkadian Perfect - the core of the entire work. This lexical
developed by Ray Jackendoff. Thus, the study and the peculiarities of its usage had been the presentation includes, for the first time ever in the
assumes a decompositional approach to the subject of lengthy discussion. When studying the lexical study of Maltese, phonemic transcriptions
meaning of lexical items in which the meaning of Perfect in the Middle Assyrian dialect the author for every entry. No Maltese dictionary or glossary
a given lexical item is decomposed into smaller came to the conclusion that the use of the Perfect to date has ever gone into such linguistic depth.
universal conceptual primitives. Each chapter in that dialect should have been explained a way In addition to this, the glossary presents an in-
begins with a succinct introduction of the different from that suggested by W. von Soden depth, though general analysis, of the main
Amharic data under investigation and a concise (Grundriss der Akkadischen Grammatik. Roma features of Maltraljan (viz. phonological,
statement of the theoretically relevant issues. 1952; 19953). Thus, the necessity arose to check semantic, morphological, syntactic, as well as
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This dialect has not been documented before. primary languages, i.e., the spectrum of West Mesopotamian school system as a language of
Like all Arabic colloquials, it is unwritten. The Semitic dialects spoken in Canaan. As a result of high culture for almost two thousand more years.
present sketch addresses the general need for this language contact, all levels of the linguistic A language-isolate, Sumerian has no obvious
dialectology work on Palestinian Arabic. It also structure were affected, especially in the domains relatives.
addresses the call for data to permit much needed of syntax and morphology, creating a marked Typologically, Sumerian is quite different
comparative work in Arabic syntax and similarity between this mixed Canaano-Akkadian from the Semitic languages which followed it in
phonology. diplomatic language and the indigenous West Mesopotamia. It is basically SOV, with core
This sketch describes the phonemic system of Semitic Canaanite dialects. grammatical relationships marked by affixes on
the dialect, its morphology (nominal and verbal Since we do not possess any substantial the verb, and with adverbial relationships marked
systems), and syntax (word order, clause written record of the Canaanite dialects prior to by postpositions, which are cross-referenced by
structure, and clause chaining). Throughout these the first millennium BCE, the Amarna letters prefixes on the verb. It is split ergative; the
sections, those features are identified which are from Canaan are our only source of knowledge perfect functions on an ergative basis, but the
markedly Palestinian (vs. Classical) or rural (vs. regarding the linguistic structure of the dialects imperfect on a nominative-accusative basis.
urban or bedouin). It remains beyond the scope of spoken in Canaan in the second millenium BCE. Because Sumerian is an isolate, and has been
the sketch to compare this dialect with other The Amarna letters yield linguistic, dead for thousands of years, special problems
Arabic colloquials (e.g., Egyptian, Iraqi, etc.). sociolinguistic and linguistic-cultural material arise in trying to elucidate its grammar. There are
Two phenomena are highlighted. The first is the that predates both Phoenician and Hebrew as we still major challenges in understanding its
Abu Shusha vowel system, which has three times know them from the written records of the first morphosyntax, and very little is known about
the inventory of Classical Arabic. millenium BCE. Sumerian at the discourse level. This volume will
The second is its discourse structure, as found The survey offered in LW/M, which sketches describe some of the major questions still to be
in oral narrative: features and strategies of a concise model of the linguistic system resolved.
topic/focus, coherence and cohesion. An example embodied by this corpus, lays special stress on
narrative is provided, with interlinear gloss and the interference between Akkadian and the West ISBN 3 929075 39 3. Languages of the
English translation. The sketch is based on initial Semitic languages, which resulted in the World/Materials 68. 50pp. USD 51.80 / EUR
data gathering from two trips each to New Jersey Canaano-Akkadian mixed languages and 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 1999.
and Ramallah in 1989 and 1991. linguistic varieties.
ISBN 3 89586 960 0. Languages of the ISBN 3 89586 126 X. Languages of the
Modern Hebrew
World/Materials 28. 60 pp. USD 53.00 / EUR World/Materials 82. 92pp. USD 53.00 / EUR
43.10 / GBP 36.60. (2nd edition) 2000. 43.10 / GBP 36.60. 1998. Second printing, with ORA (RODRIGUE) SCHWARZWALD
minor corrections. 2005. Bar Ilan University
Gə'əz (Classical Ethiopic) Modern Hebrew revival in Israel during the last
Chadian Arabic century is a unique phenomenon: a written
language used by Jews over 1700 years for either
STEFAN WENINGER
University of Marburg liturgy or writing has become a spoken language
SAMIR ABU-ABSI used for all purposes.
c The University of Toledo Although the revivers of Hebrew tried to base
Gə əz, a South-Semitic language, is the classical
tongue of Ethiopia. Extinct as a spoken language the spoken language on the grammar of Hebrew
This sketch deals with an unwritten dialect of classical periods, the phonetic and grammatical
since the 10th century, it is still used by the Arabic which is spoken in parts of northern and
Ethiopian church, and still influencing the modern structure of Modern Hebrew shows divergence
central Chad (French Tchad) and which has from it due to various factors.
languages of Ethiopia. In this regard it's comparable received serious attention only in the last three
to the Classical tongues of Europe, Latin and New words in Modern Hebrew are derived
decades. The description and materials used is of primarily in three ways: 1. combination of a
Greek. After Egyptian and Meroitic it is one of the potential interest to nonspecialists as well as to
oldest attested languages of Africa. consonantal root with pattern, e.g. g-d-l+-i-e- >
students of Arabic linguistics and dialectology. A gidel ‘raised,' g-d-l+mi--a- > migdal ‘tower’; 2.
The present volumne contains: A short outline variety of what may be labeled Sudanic Arabic, the
of the problems connected with Gəcəz phonology; stem + affix, e.g. bank+ay > bankay ‘banker,'
Chadian dialect manifests certain linguistic features migdal+i > migdali ‘tower-like’; 3. blends, e.g.
the basic structures of the morphology, with special which pose a challenge to its classification in terms
reference to the verb; the principles of Gəcəz migdal + ’or ‘light’ > migdalor ‘lighthouse.' Loan
of the traditional Eastern/Western or nomadic/ words are added from various sources with some
syntax; a sample text, thoroughly analyzed in sedentary dichotomies.
interlinear translations. Comparative charts of the phonetic adaptation, e.g. bank, telefon, and can
Included in this study are brief phonological, follow Hebrew derivational rules, e.g. telefoni ‘of
nomenclature of the verbal stems, a chapter on morphological and syntactic outlines of the dialect
reseach tools and literature and an ample the phone (adj),' t-l-f-n+-i-e- > tilfen ‘telephoned
followed by sample texts in phonemic transcription. (v).'
bibliography should function as a helpful guide to It is hoped that enough information is given to be of
Gəcəz-studies for the non-specialist and faciliate All verbs are derived by root and (seven)
help to those who do not know Arabic as well as to patterns' combination, unlike nouns. There are
reference. The second revised and enlarged edition those who are familiar with other varieties of
takes account of new findings, the bibliography is three tenses and one mood in the verb. Nouns are
Arabic. A number of characteristic features of either masculine or feminine. Person inflection in
updated and more examples are given. Chadian Arabic, especially in the area of the verbs is obligatory, and so is preposition
ISBN 3 89586 604 0. Languages of the phonology, are contrasted with equivalent inflection. Nouns and adjectives are inflected for
World/Materials 01. 60pp. USD 51.80 / EUR structures in Modern Standard Arabic since the number and gender, but possessive inflection is
42.10 / GBP 35.80. (2nd edition) 1995. latter is one variety of Arabic which is more likely limited in nouns, e.g. yadi ~ hayad šeli ‘my hand.'
to be familiar to most readers. Modern Hebrew is an SVO language with an
The materials in this sketch is based mainly on alternating VSO word order that was dominant in
Canaano-Akkadian data collected in the late sixties from a native
speaker of Chadian Arabic to be used in the
classical Hebrew. Topicalization and other word
order shifts are possible. Adjectives follow head
preparation of teaching material for the Peace nouns, but numeral quantifiers precede them.
SHLOMO IZRE’EL Corps. Other materials collected by other Nominal sentences with no copula are very
Tel Aviv University researchers and published since are also taken into common in Hebrew, e.g. hi yafa ‘she (is)
consideration. beautiful.' Copulative verbs are obligatory in the
During the second millenium BCE, Akkadian past or the future tense.
served as the lingua franca of the ancient Near ISBN 3 89586 005 0. Languages of the The lexicon of Modern Hebrew is composed
East. An extensive body of epistolographic texts World/Materials 21. 47pp. USD 51.80 / EUR of original Hebrew words from all its language
written in this language was discovered at Tell el- 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 1995. periods together with loan words. Semantic shifts
Amarna, the modern name for the ancient seat of occur in many original words, however, a lot of
government of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenophis
IV (Akhenaton). The majority of the Amarna Sumerian the changes are due to loan translations or loan
shifts.
letters were sent to Egypt by the rulers of
Canaanite cities which, at the time, were part of JOHN HAYES ISBN 3 89586 144 8. Languages of the
the Egyptian empire. University of California, Berkeley World/Materials 127. 110pp. USD 58.90 /
While the conventional language of EUR 47.90 / GBP 40.70. 2001.
correspondence was nominally Akkadian, by the Sumerian has the distinction of being the oldest
Amarna period, i.e., the 14th century BCE, the attested language in the world. Spoken in the
Canaanite administration had developed a kind of southern part of ancient Mesopotamia, the Iraq of
mixed language. This language, or rather, today, its first texts date to about 3100 BCE.
linguistic continuum comprising many varieties, Sumerian died out as a spoken language about
was based upon the lexicon of Akkadian, with 2000 BCE, but it was studied in the
serious structural interference from the scribes'
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Un créole arabe : le Ibn Sīnā: A Treatise on noun-adjective, gender, number, numerals, the
pronoun, the verb, the preposition, declension, the
kinubi de Mombasa, Arabic Phonetics adverb, the conjunction, the exclamations and
interjections), on the concordance of the verb.
Kenya SOLOMON SARA, S.J.
Appendices.
This re-edition has been published as no. 31 in
XAVIER LUFFIN Georgetown University the LINCOM Gramatica (LINGram) series
Université Libre de Bruxelles Ibn Sīnā, also known in the West as Avicenna, is
(originally published 1921, London, written in
English)
Le kinubi est un créole de base arabe, parlé en a 10th -11th century Persian Muslim philosopher
Afrique de l’Est (Kenya, Ouganda, République and scientist. He was born around 980 C.E. /370
Démocratique du Congo, Tanzanie) et apparenté H near Bukhara, in modern Uzbekistan, and died ISBN 978 3 89586 248 9. LINCOM
à l’arabe de Juba (Soudan). Il est parlé par une in 1037 C.E. /428 H in Hamedan, in modern Iran. Gramatica 31. 99pp. USD 56.30 / EUR 45.80 /
communauté musulmane – les Nubi – dont les Among his philosophical and scientific works are GBP 38.90. 2010.
ancêtres sont venus du sud du Soudan à la fin du kitāb al-šifā ‘The book of healing’, his
19ème siècle. compendium of philosophy and science, and al- An Elementary Grammar of
La présente recherche se propose de décrire le qānuwn fiy al-tibb ’The canon of medicine’ his
kinubi tel qu’il est parlé actuellement à Mombasa, compendium of medicine, which was translated the Ancient Egyptian
sur la côte kenyane, en mettant l’accent d’une part
sur l’originalité de ce parler par rapport à ceux de
into Latin and used in European universities as
the primary medical source book for centuries.
Language in the
Kibera (Kenya) et de Bombo (Ouganda), et en The treatise under discussion is a unique Hieroglyphic Type
analysant d’autre part quel a été le rôle du linguistic-scientific treatise , written in Arabic,
superstrat (arabe dialectal), du substrat (langues about Arabic phonetics from both scientific and P. LE PAGE RENOUF
sud-soudanaises) et surtout de l’adstrat (kiswahili linguistic perspectives. This thoughtful and
et anglais) dans sa formation. innovative treatise went beyond the traditional The Elementary Grammar contained in this
En ce qui concerne l’originalité, le kinubi de impressionistic descriptions of the sounds of volume is available for all hieroglyphic texts
Mombasa présente une série de traits Arabic to include in its purview the three written whilst the old Egyptian was still a living
phonologiques et morphologiques qui, même s’ils modalities of phonetics: the acoustic, the language, and the hieroglyphic system of writing
sont limités à certains locuteurs, n’apparaissent articulatory, and the anatomical/ physiological. In continued in its original purity. It is of the utmost
pas dans les autres parlers étudiés : épenthèse et addition, it delved into comparative phonetics and importance that the student should begin with
apocope moins fréquentes, survivance du duel, natural parallels to the sounds of Arabic. It is of these texts, for although the vocabulary and
utilisation du pronom affixe après un nom… Par interest to linguists and phoneticians to note that grammar of the later inscriptions resemble those
ailleurs, le kinubi de Mombasa est influencé par this uncommonly broad and global perspective on of the better period, as closely as modern Latin
divers parlers, en raison des origines variées de phonetics would become common only in more
does that of the ancient, and although the
ses locuteurs. recent research in and teaching of phonetics (19th
contents of these inscriptions are often of the
En ce qui concerne la formation du kinubi, century on). This treatise is a landmark in the
scientific study and development of phonetics. highest historical and archeological interest, the
nous constatons que l’influence du substrat est hieroglyphic system which they exhibit is
peu visible, tandis que le superstrat a joué un extremely corrupt, particularly in the Roman
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rôle-clé dans le processus. Enfin, l’adstrat exerce period; it confounds articulations which the
Phonetics 03. 200pp. USD 86.40 / EUR 70.20 /
actuellement une forte influence sur la langue. ancient Egyptians scrupulously distinguished,
GBP 59.70. 2009.
Toutefois, l’anglais et le kiswahili n’agissent pas signs originally syllabic are used with purely
de la même manière sur le kinubi en général, alphabetic values, the ancient values are
tandis que les autres langues adstratales ont un
impact très limité. Cette étude tente donc de Palestinian Texts sometimes ignored and entirely new ones
substituted. When the original System is more
déterminer quels sont les facteurs linguistiques, thoroughly known, the corruptions which it has
sociaux et historiques permettant de comprendre KIMARY N. SHAHIN suffered will be readily learnt (from the preface
cette différence de traitement. University of British Columbia of the 1875 edition).
Contents: Hieroglyphic Signs, Hieroglyphic
ISBN 3 89586 804 3. LINCOM Studies in This is a collection of Palestinian Arabic Vocabulary, Nouns and Adjectives, Numbers,
Pidgin & Creole Linguistics 07. 200pp. USD narratives spoken by speakers of both urban and Ordinals, Pronouns Prepositions, Adverbs and
112.30 / EUR 91.30 / GBP 77.60. 2005. rural Palestinian dialects. It documents dialectal Conjunctions, Intcrjections, Verbs.
distinctions which are expected to disappear over This re-edition has been published as no. 18
the coming decades. The texts are analysed with
Kinubi Texts reference to the grammatical sketch LW/M Series
in the LINCOM Gramatica (LINGram) series
(originally published 1875, London: Samuel
no. 28 by the author and to previous published Bagster and Sons).
XAVIER LUFFIN collections of Palestinian oral texts.
Université Libre de Bruxelles ISBN 978 3 89586 157 4. LINCOM
The Kinubi is an Arabic-based Creole, spoken ISBN 3 89586 169 3. Languages of the Gramatica 18. 140pp. USD 60.80 / EUR 49.40
today in some parts of East Africa: Kenya, World/Text Collections 05. 80pp. USD 62.60 / / GBP 42.00. 2010.
Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo. EUR 50.90 / GBP 43.30. 1999.
Formerly, it was spoken in Tanzania and in
Comparative Grammar
Somalia. This language is closely related to Juba
Arabic, spoken in Southern Sudan. It is the
language of a Muslim community – the Nubi.
re-editions of the Semitic
Their ancestors were soldiers who left Southern Languages
Sudan in the late 19th century, due to the Mahdist
rebellion. They went to Uganda, where they
The Siwi Language
enrolled in the British colonial army. DE LACY O'LEARY, D.D.
The target language of Kinubi is mainly W. SEYMOUR WALKER
Sudanese Arabic (actually, various Sudanese Already in the eleventh Century A.D. the Rabbi
dialects). Many features distinguish Kinubi from The Oasis of Siwa - the most westerly of the Jehuda Hayyug (Abu Zakaria Yahya) began to
Dialectal Arabic: phonemic changes, the loss of oases of Egypt - its people, and their speech, have apply the methods of the Arabic grammarians to
gender, the loss of the article al-, the loss of the been so long objects of interest and speculation to Hebrew and thus unconsciously laid the
Arabic verbal morphology and the use of TMA the outside world. The author has devoted much foundation of the comparative philology of the
markers. This language is also highly influenced time and labour, under difficult circumstances, to Semitic languages. It was already known that a
by English and Swahili.The texts which are the compiling of the Grammar and vocabularies close relationship existed between Aramaic and
presented in this book have been collected in of the Siwi language hitherto practically Hebrew, but it was commonly supposed that
Bombo (Uganda), Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya) and unknown. Aramaic was a corruption from Hebrew.
Mombasa (Kenya). They deal with the history of C. V. Stanley, in 1911, and shortly later, J. Theological prepossessions inclined the Jews to
the Nubi community: their origins in Sudan, their Quibell, of the Cairo Museum, came to the regard Hebrew as the parent, not only of
arrival in Uganda, their settling in other countries conclusion that Siwi was Touareg or closely Aramaic and Arabic, but of all other languages
of East Africa, their participation in the First and allied to it. (adapted from the forword and as well, and this opinion was generally adopted
Second World Wars. They also cover the post- introduction). The Ethnologue (2009) classifies by Christian writers also. Even this view,
Independance period. Siwi as “Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Eastern, Siwa - not however, admitted that a much closer
closely related to other Berber languages”. relationship existed between Hebrew, Arabic,
ISBN 3 89586 835 3. Languages of the Contents: Introduction, abbreviations, the and Aramaic, than between Hebrew and any
World/Text Collections 21. 172pp. USD 74.90 accidence (transliteration and pronunciation, other language; and to this closely related group
/ EUR 60.90 / GBP 51.80. 2005. accent, the article, the noun-substantive, the a fourth member, Ethiopic, was added in the
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Fr. A. (ANDRE JAROSSEAU, according Dans les pages suivantes nous tâcherons de
This work is a study of the Minoan Linear A
to WEB-BALL, LLACAN) language, i.e. the language of Minoan Crete in the
donner un exposé succint de la phonologie du Bronze Age. The Linear A materials and data
dialecte "vulgaire" de Beyrouth. Table des which have been available for examination is
Table des matières: Alphabet oromo, du genre, du matières: Qualité des sons (consonnes,
nombre, radical et terminaison, du substantif, de composed of only 1400 inscribed clay tablets or
changements des consonnes, voyelles, fragments, and some stone and metallic objects.
l'adjectif, du pronom, du verbe, adverbe, changements des voyelles, synthèse des sons (Re-
prépositon, conjunction, interjection, particules The method used in the examination and review
edition; originally published 1911 in Upsala; of each inscription is the scrutiny of the message
affixes préfixes, particules affixes suffixes, written in French).
euphonisme (Re-edition; originally published each conveyed and the qualitative and
1922 in Diré-Daoua (Abyssinie); written in quantitative information given, its comparison
ISBN 978 3 86290 175 3. LINCOM Orientalia with other relevant inscriptions, its logical
French)
44. 123pp. USD 59.00 / EUR 48.80 / GBP interpretation and correlation, the conclusions
40.50. 2010/IV. allowed to be drawn, and the problems that may
ISBN 978 3 86290 105 0. LINCOM Gramatica be resulting or counter arguments which may
85. 164pp. USD 90.50 / EUR 74.80 / GBP 62. have to be contemplated.
2010/IV. Das Zahlwort vier und neun The Linear A syllabary, revised and enriched,
was compared to the Luwian hieroglyphic signs;
in den chamitisch-semiti- 15 out of 78 signs have a Luwian counterpart;
Kurzgefaßte Grammatik der
schen Sprachen thus no claim of complete similarity can be made.
Biblisch-Aramäischen The Linear A glossary contains about 1025 whole
or broken words. Most of them are not
Sprache, Literatur, LEO REINISCH understood yet. Among those which are
Paradigmen, Texte und understood, 45 words have a Luwian counterpart.
(Re-edition; originally published 1890 Inscriptions on votive offerings are dedications to
Glossar divinities, like to goddess A.SA.SA.RA (the
in Wien; written in German) Madonna of the Luwians) or to DA.MA.TE (the
KARL MARTI Earth Mother or Demeter). The Linear A Glossary
ISBN 978 3 86290 181 4. LINCOM Orientalia reveals a glossary of terms in food and
Inhalt: Schrift- und Lautlehre (u.a. die 46. 44pp. USD 39.40 / EUR 32.60 / GBP 27.00. agricultural products, on metals, vessels and
2010/IV. artefacts and on a number of place names and
Konsonantenschrift, die Vokalbezeichnung, die
personal names. Most of the technical words were
masorethischen Beizeichen, Prosthese u. terms borrowed from Sumerian, Semitic or
Insertion, Veräderung der Vokale beim Wechsel Grammaire arabe vulgaire Akkadian languages.
eines Tones), Formenlehre (u.a. Pronomen, The Hagia Triada tablets are a wealth of
Verbum, Nomen, Zahlwort, Partikel), Bemer- P. CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL information on many subjects. There is a series of
kungen zur Syntax (u.a. die Rektion des tablets relating to Minoan religious sanctuaries
Verbums, die Kombination der Nomina, der Table des matières: des lettres de l'alphabet - du dedicated to Adu, Tinita and Akaru, indicating
einfache Satz, Satzverbindung und Satzgefüge), verbe (tableaux des six classes, voix passive, etc), the worship in Crete of deities from the
des noms, des adjectives, de l'article, de la Syropalestinian coast. Large quantities of wheat,
Literatur, Paradigmata, Texte und Glossar (die wine and oil, also of seeds and figs were
aramäischen Stücke des Alten Testaments, Texte déclinaison, des pronoms personelles, chiffres et
numération, prépositions, adverbes, conjunctions, delivered to these sanctuaries.
aus den Papyrusfunden von Elephantine), Glossar The Phaistos Disk was continued to be read as
interjections, concordance, phrases d'usage pour
(Re-edition; originally published 925 in Berlin; la conversation, textes (Re-edition; originally a Luwian hieroglyphic document and the
written in German) published 1858 in Paris; written in French). information obtained was critically analysed for
internal consistency.
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