By W. Randall Garr
Garr's vintage learn on dialect geography of the Levant used to be the 1st book-length try and persist with within the steps of Zellig Harris, The improvement of the Canaanite Dialects in forty five years. This Eisenbrauns' reprint makes the ebook (out of print for numerous years) on hand once more to scholars of the Canaanite languages.
The booklet opens with an advent that provides the technique used, a survey of prior experiences, the corpus of texts utilized in the learn, and Garr's pursuits. the following 3 chapters supply a finished checklist of phonological, morphological, and syntactical gains, that are then accrued right into a finished desk and analyzed for his or her relevance to dialectical type. Conclusions and a wealthy bibliography persist with, in addition to indexes of topic, texts stated, and phrases.
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Seriphos* (see Fig. 1 for location of these Aegean islands); 7. Troodos Mountains, Cyprus (see Fig. 2 for site details). Central Mediterranean (Chapter 3) 8. Funtana Raminosa, Sardinia*; 9. Libiola, eastern Liguria; 10. Monte Loreto, eastern Liguria; 11. Trentino*; 12. Campolungo, Lombardy. Iberia (Chapter 4) 13. Chinflon, Huelva (see Fig. 1 for detail on south-west Spain); 14. Mocissos, Portugal; 15. Sierra de Orihuela, south-east Spain; 16. Loma de la Tejeria, Teruel*; 17. Mallorca*; 18. Mitja Lluna, Minorca; 19.