Genetic Subgroupings of the Semitic Languages

Title Page......Page 1
Acknowledgements......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
1.0 Why This Dissertation......Page 13
1.1 Waves and Trees......Page 17
1.2 On the Alleged Primacy of Morphological Criteria......Page 22
1.3 On the Alleged Impossibility of Comparative Syntactic Reconstruction......Page 25
1.4 The Need for Detailed Investigation of Semitic Relationships......Page 31
1.5 The Semitic Languages in Brief......Page 32
1.6 The Plan......Page 36
Notes to Chapter One......Page 37
2.0 Traditional Views of Semitic Word Order......Page 38
2.1 General Summary of Results......Page 42
2.2 Inferences About Earlier Word Order......Page 88
2.3 Conclusion......Page 97
Notes to Chapter Two......Page 98
3.1 Agent Phrases in Hebrew......Page 101
3.2 Agent Phrases in Arabic......Page 108
3.3 Agent Phrases in Aramaic......Page 112
3.4 Passives in Other Semitic Languages......Page 114
3.5 Agent barkers......Page 117
3.6 Conclusion......Page 123
Notes to Chapter Three......Page 124
4.0 Introduction......Page 126
4.1 Emphasis in the Modern Semitic Languages......Page 127
4.2 Evidence by Inference......Page 148
4.3 Summary......Page 164
4.4 Reconstruction......Page 166
4.5 Decision......Page 171
4.6 Subgrouping......Page 174
4.7 Conclusion......Page 178
Notes to Chapter Four......Page 180
5.1 The Correspondences in \"Standard\" Reconstructions......Page 183
5.2 Reconstructing the System......Page 192
5.3 A New Reconstruction of the Sibilants......Page 221
5.4 Inferences about Relatedness......Page 231
5.5 Conclusion......Page 238
Notes to Chapter Five......Page 240
6.0 Summary of the Results of the Preceding Investigations......Page 242
6.1 Comparison with Hetzron\'s Morphologically Based Subgrouping......Page 246
6.2 Tree vs. Wave Phenomena......Page 249
6.3 Directions for Further Research......Page 252
6.4 Historical and Archaeological Connections......Page 257
6.5 Conclusion......Page 259
Appendix I: Variables for Syntactic Coding......Page 261
Appendix II: Amharic Tokens......Page 267
Appendix iII: Sibilant Correspondences......Page 268
Bibliography......Page 281