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Wright, William. Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages
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| Author: | William Wright |
| Title: | Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages |
| Subtitle: | With a New Introduction by Patrick Bennett |
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| Publisher: | Gorgias Press LLC |
| Publication Date: | 8/24/2002 8:25:32 AM 1890 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| ISBN: | 1-931956-12-X |
| Format: | Paperback 6 x 9, 1 volume(s), [v]+xi+288 pages, illustrations |
These Lectures were written for students of the University of Cambridge towards the end of the nineteenth century by the eminent Semitist William Wright. The Lectures are full of valuable and accurate data drawn from a variety of Semitic languages. While more recent
studies on the comparative linguistics of Semitic have appeared, Wright's Lectures remain a classic in the field.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Additional Notes by William Robertson Smith
- New Introduction by Patrick Bennett
- Introductory Remarks. The Term Semitic. Diffusion and Original Home of The Semites
- General Survey of The Semitic Languages
- Semitic Writing
- The Letters of the Semitic Alphabet and the Changes They Undergo
- The Vowels and Their Permutations
- The Pronouns
- The Noun
- The Verb
- The Irregular Verb
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