SEMITIC PHILOLOGY

Class lectures

Semitic linguistics: history of scholarship, a geographical and historical overview of Semitic languages, models of classification of Semitic languages. The Afro-Asiatic languages. Scripts of Semitic languages.

1) G. Garbini, O. Durand, Introduzione alle lingue semitiche, Paideia, Brescia 1994, pp. 1-73; 131-191.

2) F.A. Pennacchietti, ‘Ripercussioni sintattiche in conseguenza dell’introduzione dell’articolo determinativo proclitico in semitico’, «Aula Orientalis» 23 (2005), pp. 175-184.

3) P.T. Daniels, ‘Scripts of Semitic Languages’, in R. Hetzron (ed.), The Semitic Languages, Routledge, London-New York 1997, pp. 16-45.

4) J. Huehnergard, A.D. Rubin, ‘Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification of the Semitic Languages’, in S. Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook, De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2011, pp. 259-278.

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All the books listed in the program can be consulted in the Library.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.