The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels: Including a Concise Historical Morphology (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics) - Hardcover

Suchard, Benjamin

9789004390256: The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels: Including a Concise Historical Morphology (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)

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ISBN 10: 9004390251 ISBN 13: 9789004390256

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2019

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The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels investigates the sound changes affecting the Proto-Northwest-Semitic vocalic phonemes and their reflexes in Tiberian Biblical Hebrew. Contrary to many previous approaches, Benjamin Suchard shows that these developments can all be described as phonetically regular sound laws. This confirms that despite its unique transmission history, Hebrew behaves like other languages in this regard.
Many Hebrew sound changes have traditionally been explained as reflecting non-phonetic conditioning. These include the Canaanite Shift of *ā to *ō, tonic and pre-tonic lengthening, diphthong contraction, Philippi's Law, the Law of Attenuation, and the apocope of short, unstressed vowels. By reconsidering reconstructions and re-evaluating phonetic conditions, this work shows how the Biblical Hebrew forms regularly derive from their Proto-Northwest-Semitic precursors.

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Benjamin Suchard, Ph.D. (2016), Leiden University, has worked as a lecturer and postdoc at that university since completing his doctorate. He has published various articles on Hebrew and other Semitic languages, most notably Biblical Aramaic. This is his first monograph.

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