Table of Contents

Full contents
Glossing Category labels
1: Introduction
2: The Languages
3: Distribution
4: Writing Systems and Scripts
5: Classification
6: Linguistic Traditions
7: Phonology
8: Closed-Class Morphemes
9: Derivational Morphology
10: Entity Terms
11: Syntactic Relations; Case System
12: Predicative Relation
13: Verbal System
14: Attributive Relation
15: Completive Relation
16: Existence, Belonging, and Possession
References
Index

About the Author

Gideon Goldenberg is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1996 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 1999. He has published extensively on Neo-Ethiopian languages, Syriac, Hebrew, and Neo-Aramaic, syntactic relations and typology, and on the history of linguistics in the Middle East.

Reviews

Gideon Goldenberg's Semitic Languages:Features, Structures, Relations, Processes is a very valuable introduction to the Semitic languages and their grammatical peculiarities.
*Christian Stadel, BiOr no. LXXI 3/4*