Languages of Southern Arabia

Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 44 2014

Edited by Orhan Elmaz Edited by Janet C. E. Watson

Book cover: Languages of Southern Arabia

Extent: 168 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies

Series: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2014)

ISBN: 9781905739813

8.11 x 10.04 inches

Price: $60.00

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The special session in 2013, Languages of Southern Arabia, was the fifth in the Seminar for Arabian Studies special session series.


The special session in 2013, Languages of Southern Arabia, was the fifth in the Seminar for Arabian Studies special session series. This was the first special session with an explicit linguistic focus to be held at the Seminar, and aimed to bring together experts on the extinct and extant languages of southern Arabia to pave the way for identifying cultural, lexical, morphological, syntactic, phonological, and phonetic links between the language families, and to discuss advances in the field and future avenues of research. Work to date had highlighted shared linguistic features across the extinct and extant languages of the region, in many cases where languages are separated by large geographical distances. With papers dealing with Ancient South Arabian, the Modern South Arabian languages, and the Arabic dialects of the southern part of the Peninsula, this session examined and re-examined links within and between the language groups and further afield.

The session not only brought together established and early career scholars of the three language groups, but also experts on different types of oral and written texts — narratives, poetry and songs, and different aspects of linguistics — epigraphy, syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and phonetics.

Transliteration

Orhan Elmaz & Janet C.E. Watson, Languages of Southern Arabia

Alessandra Avanzini, From inscriptions to grammar: notes on the grammar of non-Sabaic languages

Alex Bellem & G. Rex Smith ,‘Middle Arabic’? Morpho-syntactic features of clashing grammars in a thirteenth-century Arabian text

Domenyk Eades, Syncretism in the verbal morphology of the Modern South Arabian Languages

Orhan Elmaz, Investigating South Arabian words in al-Khalīl’s Kitāb al-Κayn

Richard Gravina, The vowel system of Jibbali

Leonid Kogan & Vitaly Naumkin, The vowels of Soqotri as a phonemic system

Ingo Kottsieper & Peter Stein, Sabaic and Aramaic — a common origin?

Walter W. Müller, Sabaic lexical survivals in the Arabic language and dialects of Yemen

Alessia Prioletta, Towards a ДaΡramitic lexicon: lexical notes on terms relating to the formulary and rituals in expiatory inscriptions

Irene Rossi, The Minaeans beyond MaΚīn

Aaron D. Rubin, A brief comparison of Mehri and Jibbali

Christina van der Wal Anonby, Traces of Arabian in Kumzari

Janet C.E. Watson, Southern Semitic and Arabic dialects of the south-western Arabian Peninsula

Papers read in the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies on 27 July 2013

  • Edited by Orhan Elmaz
  • Edited by Janet C. E. Watson