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Kootstra, Fokelien (2014)

Taymanitic; a linguistic assessment

Research master thesis | Linguistics (research) (MA)

This thesis carries out a linguistic survey of the ANA epigraphic material from Tayma conventionally known as Taymanitc. The following will consist of three main parts. The first part will include a general introduction to ANA and the development of our knowledge of Taymanitic; the issue of literacy in the society of Tayma and the significance of writing will be discussed, as well as some theoretical issues concerning phylogenetic linguistic classification. The second part will be a grammatical sketch based on all the attested linguistic features in the Taymanitic corpus. Following the grammatical sketch will be a discussion of the linguistic features of Taymanitic that are relevant to classification in order to establish Taymanitic’s position in the Semitic family tree and within the subgroup of ANA. To make the texts easily accessible and to give insight into the analysis underlying the grammatical sketch, an appendix will be added containing the philological commentaries on the...Show moreThis thesis carries out a linguistic survey of the ANA epigraphic material from Tayma conventionally known as Taymanitc. The following will consist of three main parts. The first part will include a general introduction to ANA and the development of our knowledge of Taymanitic; the issue of literacy in the society of Tayma and the significance of writing will be discussed, as well as some theoretical issues concerning phylogenetic linguistic classification. The second part will be a grammatical sketch based on all the attested linguistic features in the Taymanitic corpus. Following the grammatical sketch will be a discussion of the linguistic features of Taymanitic that are relevant to classification in order to establish Taymanitic’s position in the Semitic family tree and within the subgroup of ANA. To make the texts easily accessible and to give insight into the analysis underlying the grammatical sketch, an appendix will be added containing the philological commentaries on the longer narrative texts that formed the basis of the presented grammatical sketch.Show less

Grammatical sketch

Ancient North Arabian

Literacy

Historical linguistics

Epigraphy

Author

Kootstra, Fokelien

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Al-Jallad, Ahmad

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en