Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting: Pt. 2 - Phonetics and Phonology, Pt. 3 - Morphosyntactics

This work is a comprehensive survey of non-Masoretic Hebrew dialects and traditions against the background of the related, primarily other West Semitic lanugages, but also the less close East and South Semitic and non-Semitic branches of the Semito-Hamitic phylum are taken into account. The previously published Part One contains Hebrew and comparative lexical material. Part Two contains a systematic phonetic and phonological discussion including an historical survey. Part Three contains a discussion of morphological and syntactical aspects as well as a comprehensive statistical synopsis of the entire language structure compared with selected related languages.

A. Murtonen, Ph.D. and D.Theol, (1959), was born in Finland and has served as minister of the Lutheran Church in Finland (1951-1960), and taught at the Universities of Helsinki and Melbourne. His major publications include: Old Testament divine names (1952), The living soul (1958), Materials for a non-Masoretic Hebrew grammar I-III (1958-64), Broken plurals (1964), Early Semitic (1967), Statistical analyses of morphosyntactics (1978), and Hebrew in its West Semitic setting (Brill, 1986).