Re-engaging comparative Semitic and Arabic studies
By: edited by Daniel Birnstiel, Na'ama Pat-El
Series: Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes -- Band 115; Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes -- Bd. 115.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9783447111188; 9783447198233
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Semitic languages; Congresses; Comparative Grammar; Arabic; Arabic language; Semitic
Notes: Proceedings of the congress "Horizons of Islamic Theology" which took place in September 1-5, 2014, at the Institute for the Study of Islamic Culture and Religion at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Daniel Birnstiel and Na'ama Pat-El; title: What is Ancient North Arabian?  -- Ahmad Al-Jallad; title: Neither clear nor clarifying -- yet clearly Arabic  -- Daniel Birnstiel; title: The marked nominative in Arabic, Semitic, and Afroasiatic  -- Lutz Edzard; title: The plural demonstratives and relatives based on * 'Vl in Arabic and the origin of dialectal illī  -- Phillip W. Stokes; title: A stratal OT account of word stress in the Mehri of Bit Thuwar -- Janet C.E. Watson and Abdullah Musallam al-Mahri.