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| 0690-1300-01 | Introduction to Semitic Languages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Introduction to Semitic Linguistics
The course opens with basic questions regarding language and its function as a basic tool for human communication, as well as with determining what is linguistics, the study of language. Continuing with the dichotomy between synchronic and diachronic linguistics, we then proceed to issues such as language families and the notion of proto-language, following by the study of the Semitic language family and the Semitic languages. We shall deal with issues such as differences and resemblances of languages, the study of individual languages and comparison between languages, typology and genetic relationship, and the application of these issues to the study of Semitic languages.
We shall mainly deal with phonetics, phonology and morphology, touching upon syntax at its basics, mainly as related to morphology. A survey of phonological structures and morphological structures of Semitic languages and the comparison between them is our main concern in this course.
The course opens with basic questions regarding language and its function as a basic tool for human communication, as well as with determining what is linguistics, the study of language. Continuing with the dichotomy between synchronic and diachronic linguistics, we then proceed to issues such as language families and the notion of proto-language, following by the study of the Semitic language family and the Semitic languages. We shall deal with issues such as differences and resemblances of languages, the study of individual languages and comparison between languages, typology and genetic relationship, and the application of these issues to the study of Semitic languages.
We shall mainly deal with phonetics, phonology and morphology, touching upon syntax at its basics, mainly as related to morphology. A survey of phonological structures and morphological structures of Semitic languages and the comparison between them is our main concern in this course.