SEMITIC PHILOLOGY

1) Knowledge of the geographical and historical contexts housing the most important testimonies of Semitic languages; 2) groundings of Semitic linguistics in comparative perspective (phonology, morphology, syntax); 3) knowledge of the main research trends in the scholarly discussion on Afro-Asiatic languages; 4) knowledge of the most important script typologies used for Semitic languages. (Dublin Descriptor 1) http://ecahe.eu/w/index.php/Dublin_Descriptors

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.

- G. Goldenberg, Semitic Languages: Features, Structures, Relations, Processes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 1-57, 115-139, 199-215.

- J. Huehnergard, ‘Semitic Languages’, in J.M. Sasson (ed. in chief), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (Simon & Schuster Macmillan: New York, 1995), pp. 2124-2128.

- G. Garbini, O. Durand, Introduzione alle lingue semitiche (Brescia: Paideia, 1994), pp. 153-176.

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

Please remember that in compliance with art. 171 Law 22.04.1941, 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 texts listed in the program can be found on the STUDIUM web platform (access reserved to students).