INTRODUCTION TO THE SEMITIC LANGUAGES: Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches

Gotthelf Bergstrasser

ISBN 10: 0931464102 / ISBN 13: 9780931464102

Editore: Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN, 1983

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276p. A softcover book in good condition. Light shelf wear to cover. Top corner lightly dampstained. Former owner's private library stamps inside covers and on title pages. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Translated with notes, bibliography, and appendix by Peter T. Daniels.

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• Titolo: INTRODUCTION TO THE SEMITIC LANGUAGES: Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches
• Editore: Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, IN
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0931464102
• ISBN 13: 9780931464102
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Language Studies

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Riassunto

Gotthelf Bergstrasser (1886–1933) was one of the great Semitic linguists and philologists. This small volume encapsulates his learning, and every page yields concise statements of remarkable insight. He intended the book for elementary classes in Semitic linguistics, but only one familiar with the material can begin to appreciate the achievement in these brief chapters.

A translation seemed called for for several reasons: It is generally agreed that Bergstrasser’s “Einfuhrung” has not been superseded, and is unlikely to be. In more than half a century, no similar work has appeared either a chrestomathy or a succinct characterization of each of the major Semitic languages that can be used in an introductory class in Semitic linguistics.

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Book by Gotthelf Bergstrasser