An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions

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This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary. The grammar is based on a corpus of 33,000 Safaitic inscriptions.

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Front Matter
页码: i–xx
Introduction
页码: 1–25
Script and Orthography
页码: 26–38
Phonology and Phonetics
页码: 39–54
Nominal Morphology
页码: 55–100
The Verb
页码: 101–137
Adjectives and Agreement
页码: 138–143
Prepositions
页码: 144–153
Adverbs
页码: 154–157
Vocative Particles
页码: 158–159
Other Particles
页码: 160–161
Conjunctions
页码: 162–165
Verbless Clauses
页码: 166–170
Verbal Clauses
页码: 171–176
The Syntax of Adverbs
页码: 177–179
Topicalization
页码: 180–181
Syntax of the Infinitive
页码: 182–186
Circumstantial Clauses
页码: 193–194
Coordination
页码: 195–196
Conditional Clauses
页码: 197–198
Other Constructions
页码: 199–200
Compositional Formulae
页码: 201–220
Appendix of Inscriptions
页码: 221–295
Dictionary
页码: 296–355
Plates
页码: 357–359
Bibliography
页码: 360–362
Index of Tribes
页码: 363
Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012) Harvard University, is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University. He has published on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, the history of Arabic, and on the epigraphy of Ancient North Arabia.
Let it be said from the start that this is a first-class study which places firmly on the map a language which is of huge importance in the context of the history of the Arabic language and, more generally, of Arabian epigraphy and Semitic linguistics. - G. Rex Smith, University of Leeds.

Grâce à Ahmad al-Jallad, les spécialistes de grammaire sémitique comparée ont désormais un accès simplifié à ce formidable corpus, qui ressuscite tout un pan de l’histoire de la langue arabe et, par là même, de l’histoire des peuples arabes préislamiques. - Jonas Sibony.

This well-researched and structured book will be of interest to Semitists, who will find invaluable parallels and ideas, while comparatists will now have a reliable reference work with dozens of glossed examples when they construct linguistic models based on a large sample of world languages. - Naïm Vanthieghem - Princeton University.
All interested in comparative Semitic linguistics, the historical grammar of Arabic, and the languages and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia.
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