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Case in Semitic - Roles, Relations, and Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Case in Semitic - Roles, Relations, and Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 3
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This book sets out a new reconstruction for the Semitic case
system. It is based on a detailed analysis of the expression of
grammatical roles and relations in the attested Semitic languages
and, for the first time, brings typological methods to bear in the
study of these features in Semitic languages and their
reconstruction for proto-Semitic. Professor Hasselbach supports her
argument with detailed analyses of a wide range of data and
presents it in a way that will be accessible to both Semitists and
typologists. The volume is divided into seven chapters: the first
discusses basic methodologies used in Semitic linguistics and the
limitations thereof. The second presents the evidence for
morphological case-marking in the individual Semitic languages, the
conventional reconstruction of Proto-Semitic, and the evidence
which conflicts with it. The third introduces typological concepts
and methods and their deployment in Semitic. Chapter 4 considers
the case alignment of early Semitic. Chapter 5 presents a detailed
study of marking structures and patterns and considers what these
reveal about the nature of the original case system. Chapter 6
looks at the functions of case markers, considers the light they
cast on the nominal system, and shows that the reconstruction of
early Semitic as ergative is implausible. In the final chapter the
author argues that early Semitic had a different nominal system
from that of the later Semitic languages. She shows that the course
of its development has parallels in other Afroasiatic languages,
including Berber and Cushitic. Her book sheds important new light
on the history of the Semitic languages and on the early
development of the Afro-Asiatic language family as a whole.
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