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Germania Semitica (Hardcover)
Theo Vennemann Gen Nierfeld; Edited by Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna
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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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