Semitic Philology

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: MARCO MORIGGI

Expected Learning Outcomes

1) Knowledge of the geographical and historical contexts housing the most important testimonies of Semitic languages; 2) groundings of Semitic linguistics in comparative perspective (phonology, morphology, syntax); 3) knowledge of the main research trends in the scholarly discussion on Afro-Asiatic languages; 4) knowledge of the most important script typologies used for Semitic languages. (Dublin Descriptors 1-5 in 1st cycle qualification).

Course Structure

Class lectures

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

Semitic linguistics: history of scholarship, a geographical and historical overview of Semitic languages, models of classification of Semitic languages. The Afro-Asiatic languages. Scripts of Semitic languages.

Textbook Information

- G. Goldenberg, Semitic Languages: Features, Structures, Relations, Processes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 1-57.

- G. Garbini, O. Durand, Introduzione alle lingue semitiche (Brescia: Paideia, 1994), pp. 153-176.

- J. Huehnergard, ‘Akkadian ḫ and West Semitic *ḥ’, in L. Kogan (ed.), Studia Semitica (Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities, 2003), pp. 102-119.

- S. Moscati et l., An introduction to the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages. Phonology and morphology (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1964), pp. 22-24, 43-47, 49-67, 69-77, 84-89, 91-96, 102, 106-107, 112-113, 115-118, 121-129, 131-134, 137-139, 145-147.

- F.A. Pennacchietti, ‘Ripercussioni sintattiche in conseguenza dell’introduzione dell’articolo determinativo proclitico in semitico’, «Aula Orientalis» 23 (2005), pp. 175-184.

All the texts listed in the program can be found on the STUDIUM web platform (access reserved to students).

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
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