Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon

Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon
Author: Lutz Edzard
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783447054416

The papers collected in this volume cover topics from the theoretical perspectives on Semitic linguistics to the practical application of philological methods to various texts. Michael G. Carter opens with some deliberations on Arabic linguistics in its Islamic context. Jan Retso reinvestigates the question of the origins of Arabic dialects. Werner Arnold offers some glimpses of the Arabic dialects in the Tel Aviv region. Janet Watson, Bonnie Glover Stalls, Khalid al-Razihi and Shelagh Weir describe aspects of Razihit, a language variety spoken in north-west Yemen. Sven-Olof Dahlgren presents some statistics on sentential negation in Quranic Arabic. Rosmari Lillas-Schuil deals in-depth with the stylistic . gure hendiadys in Biblical Hebrew. Geoffrey Khan sheds new light on compound verbal forms in north-eastern Neo-Aramaic. Kjell Magne Yri examines the grammaticalization of nouns as postpositions in Amharic. Lutz Edzard analyzes various types of compound formations in Modern Semitic. Pernilla Myrne offers some thoughts on the gender-specific use of sexual vocabulary by women in Classical Arabic. Judith Josephson investigates the Hellenistic heritage of the zan diqa 'heretics'. Gunvor Mejdell gives an overview of the use of the vernacular in modern Egyptian literature. Finally, Tetz Rooke looks at cross-cultural issues in connection with translation problems from Arabic into European languages.

Current Issues in the Analysis od Semitic Grammar and Lexicon II

Current Issues in the Analysis od Semitic Grammar and Lexicon II
Author: Joachim Hengstl
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783447053877

Richard Haases Berufsalltag ist die richterliche Praxis gewesen, aus der er seinerzeit als Direktor des Amtsgerichts Leonberg in den Ruhestand getreten ist. Daneben war und ist er der Wissenschaft verbunden, und davon zeugen auch heute noch immer neue Veroffentlichungen, vor allem auf dem Gebiet des altorientalischen Rechts. Am 8. Juli 2006 feiert Richard Haase seinen 85. Geburtstag. Dieser Feiertag ist Anlass, zu seinen Ehren eine Festschrift herauszugeben, welche sein Wirken als Praktiker wie als Wissenschaftler in gleicher Weise wurdigt. "Recht gestern und heute" beschreibt die Tatigkeitsfelder des Jubilars und soll deshalb das Thema sein, abgerundet durch einige weitere Beitrage. "Recht heute" ware freilich uferlos. Die Herausgeber haben deshalb fur diesen Bereich den aktuellen Begriff der "Mediation" als Anknupfungspunkt gewahlt - eine Methode der Konfliktlosung, welche der Jubilar als ehemaliger Richter mit Interesse betrachten durfte. In den Rechten der Antike hat es an entsprechenden Losungen nicht gefehlt, und dies zeichnet sich in mehren Beitragen zu "Recht gestern" ab. Recht gesternWalter Sommerfeld: Der Beginn des offiziellen Richteramts im Alten OrientGerfrid G. W. Muller: Die Wirtschaft im Spiegel altorientalischer RechtssatzungenHans Neumann: Schuld und Suhne. Zu den religios-weltanschaulichen Grundlagen und Implikationen altmesopotamischer Gesetzgebung und RechtsprechungRaymond Westbrook: Witchcraft and the Law inthe Ancient Near EastRosel Pientka-Hinz: Der rabi sikkatum in altbabylonischer ZeitMichael Heltzer: A Royal Garantee with the Donation of ImmobilesJoachim Oelsner: Zu spatbabylonischen Ur-kunden aus Ur und dem Archiv der Familie gallabu "Barbier"Eckart Otto: Volkerrecht und Volkerordnung in der Tora der Hebraischen Bibel in achamenidischer ZeitChristian Koch: Fremde im Dienst der Wieder-errichtung von Volksherrschaften in griechischen StadtstaatenArnaldo Maffi: L'arbitrato nell' esperienza giuridica greca e romanaJoachim Hengstl: Rechtspraktiker im griechisch-romischen AgyptenMatias Buchholz: Mediation in Petra im 6. Jh. n. Chr.: Der Papyrus P. Petra Inv. 83Boudewijn Sirks: Gutliche Einigung im Holland des 18. Jh."Zwischenraum"Ulrich Manthe: Ein Orakel aus dem 7. Jh.v. Chr.Wolfgang Ernst: Fritz Mauthner als Jurist Gottfried Schiemann: Das Studium der Rechtsgeschichte in einer anwaltsorientierten JuristenausbildungRecht heuteFriedwart A. Becker / Claus-Henrik Horn: Notwendige Regelungen eines deutschen MediationsgesetzesRenate Dendorfer: Mediation: alter Wein in neuen Schlauchen?Christian Duve: Das UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation - ein Erfolgsmodell?Gilbert Gornig: Mediation und Vergleich im VerwaltungsprozessAndreas Hacke: Co-Mediation - Praktische und rechtliche UberlegungenMartina Lauenroth-Ziegler / Irene Wollenberg: Mediation - Instrument zur Erhaltung des Mit-telstandes?Heinrich Menkhaus: Alternative Streitbeilegung in Japan - Entwicklung bis zum ADR-Gesetz 2004Hans-Georg Monssen: Richtermediation - Die Justiz als Mitbewerber bei der gerichtsnahen MediationJorg Risse: Zwang zur Meditation? Einige verfassungsrechtliche UberlegungenDieter Rossner: Konfliktregelung im StrafrechtUlrich Sick: Die Mediation in Deutschland: regelungsfreier Raum oder ist eine gesetzliche Regelung erforderlich? Schlagwortregister - Quellenindex - Autoren

The Elisha-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of Israel

The Elisha-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of Israel
Author: Hadi Ghantous
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 131754434X

This study deals with the most important king of the Aramaean kingdom of Damascus, Hazael, and the impact he had on biblical literature, which goes beyond the few verses that mention him explicitly in the Book of Kings and the Book of the Twelve. The extra-biblical sources reveal that Hazael managed to create a large kingdom and to expand his authority over the whole of Syria-Palestine, including the Kingdom of Israel and the House of David, during the second half of the ninth century BCE. The Bible presents that power of Hazael as oppression of both kingdoms, yet the biblical writers elaborated a much more nuanced portrait of Hazael than first meets the eye. In the Elijah-Elisha cycles, Hazael provides a theological interpretative paradigm, the Elisha-Hazael paradigm, which provides in the Book of Kings and in the Book of the Twelve (especially in the books of Amos and Jonah) the key to explain God's mysterious dealings with Israel and Israel's enemies. Hazael is presented as a faithful agent of YHWH, who fulfils the divine plan. Beyond the power Hazael yielded across the Levant in his life time, the Elisha-Hazael paradigm reveals his enduring influence in Judah and in biblical literature.

Measuring Grammatical Complexity

Measuring Grammatical Complexity
Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2014
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199685304

This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. The volume differs from others devoted to the question of complexity in language in that the authors all approach the problem from the point of view of formal grammatical theory, psycholinguistics, or neurolinguistics. Chapters investigate a number of key issues in grammatical complexity, taking phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic considerations into account. These include what is often called the 'trade-off problem', namely whether complexity in one grammatical component is necessarily balanced by simplicity in another; and the question of interpretive complexity, that is, whether and how one might measure the difficulty for the hearer in assigning meaning to an utterance and how such complexity might be factored in to an overall complexity assessment. Measuring Grammatical Complexity brings together a number of distinguished scholars in the field, and will be of interest to linguists of all theoretical stripes from advanced undergraduate level upwards, particularly those working in the areas of morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics.

The Body in Language

The Body in Language
Author: Matthias Brenzinger
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004274294

The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and - by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language - on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualization and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain.

Arabic in Context

Arabic in Context
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004343040

The writing of Arabic’s linguistic history is by definition an interdisciplinary effort, the result of collaboration between historical linguists, epigraphists, dialectologists, and historians. The present volume seeks to catalyse a dialogue between scholars in various fields who are interested in Arabic’s past and to illustrate how much there is to be gained by looking beyond the traditional sources and methods. It contains 15 innovative studies ranging from pre-Islamic epigraphy to the modern spoken dialect, and from comparative Semitics to Middle Arabic. The combination of these perspectives hopes to stand as an important methodological intervention, encouraging a shift in the way Arabic’s linguistic history is written.

An Anxious Inheritance

An Anxious Inheritance
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197613470

Introduction -- Part I: Late Antique Fantasies: 1. Qur'ānic Others -- 2. Producing Islam through the Production of Religious Others -- 3. Past Perfect: Opening the Jāhiliyya's Complex Present -- Part II: Subsequent Constructions: 4. Good Jew, Bad Jew -- 5. Making Christians -- 6. Shīʻa: The Other Within -- 7. The Amorphous Zindīq -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.

Time: Language, Cognition & Reality

Time: Language, Cognition & Reality
Author: Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191651915

This book considers linguistic and mental representations of time. Prominent linguists and philosophers from all over the world examine and report on recent work on the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information from tense, aspect, modality, temporal adverbials, and context; and the representation of the temporal relations between events and states, as well as between facts, propositions, sentences, and utterances. They link this to current research on the cognitive processing of temporal reference, linguistic and philosophical semantics, psychology, and anthropology. The book is divided into three parts: Time, Tense, and Temporal Reference in Discourse; Time and Modality; and Cognition and Metaphysics of Time. It will interest scholars and advanced students of time and temporal reference in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and cognitive science.

Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions

Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
Author: Giuliana Giusti
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2022-03-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027257930

Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective, and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include detailed analyses of Romance, Germanic, Slavic and other languages. These contributions show important cross-linguistic similarities in these constructions, as well as their diversity, providing insights into areas such as the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces, dialectal variation and language contact. This volume establishes Pseudo-Coordination as a descriptively important and theoretically challenging cross-linguistic phenomenon among Multiple Agreement Constructions and will be of interest to specialists in individual languages as well as typologists and theoreticians, serving as a foundation to promote continued research.