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oapen-20.500.12657-306782021-11-15T08:21:35Z Germania Semitica Vennemann gen. Nierfeld, Theo Noel Aziz, Hanna Linguistics Celtic languages Etymology Germanic peoples Indo-European languages Proto-Germanic language Semitic languages 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. 2018-02-01 23:55:55 2020-03-21 03:00:29 2020-04-01T13:07:12Z 2020-04-01T13:07:12Z 2012-11-15 book 644203 OCN: 1013939287 9783110301090 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30678 eng Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] application/pdf n/a 644203.pdf De Gruyter Mouton 101064 0cd1cab5-70b9-4617-be60-369b5084971a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783110301090 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101064 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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