TY - BOOK ID - 30298474 TI - Germania Semitica AU - Vennemann, Theo. AU - Noel Aziz Hanna, Patrizia PY - 2012 VL - 259 SN - 18614302 SN - 9783110300949 311030094X 3110301091 PB - Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, DB - UniCat KW - German language KW - Allemand (Langue) KW - Semantics KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - English KW - Syntax KW - Sémantique KW - Grammaire comparée KW - Anglais KW - Syntaxe KW - German philology. KW - Germanic philology KW - Germanic languages KW - Historical linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Semitic languages KW - Afroasiatic languages KW - Etymology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Word history KW - Historical lexicology KW - Diachronic linguistics KW - Dynamic linguistics KW - Evolutionary linguistics KW - Language and history KW - Linguistics KW - History KW - Influence on Germanic&delete& KW - Derivation KW - Europe KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Languages KW - History. KW - Influence on Germanic KW - Celtic languages KW - Germanic peoples KW - Indo-European languages KW - Proto-Germanic language UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30298474 AB - Germania Semitica explores prehistoric language contact in general, and attempts to identify the languages involved in shaping Germanic in particular. The book deals with a topic outside the scope of other disciplines concerned with prehistory, such as archaeology and genetics, drawing its conclusions from the linguistic evidence alone, relying on language typology and areal probability. The data for reconstruction comes from Germanic syntax, phonology, etymology, religious loan names, and the writing system, more precisely from word order, syntactic constructions, word formation, irregularities in phonological form, lexical peculiarities, and the structure and rules of the Germanic runic alphabet. It is demonstrated that common descent is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for reconstruction. Instead, lexical and structural parallels between Germanic and Semitic languages are explored and interpreted in the framework of modern language contact theory. ER -