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SUMMARY:Language Situations in Syria-Palestine between 1500 and 500 B.C.: 
 The Emergence of Northwest Semitic - Professor Holger Gzella\, University 
 of Leiden
DTSTART:20080513T160000Z
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CONTACT:Geoffrey Khan
DESCRIPTION:Despite intensive research\, the so-called "Northwest Semitic"
  family\,which includes Canaanite and Aramaic\, continues to be an elusive
  concept. This lecture will attempt to enrich historical-comparative appro
 aches with ideas taken from dialect geography and sociolinguistics in orde
 r to depict the complex\nlinguistic map of ancient Syria-Palestine. Rather
  than identifying features of "Northwest Semitic" as such\, it will try to
  outline the process in which languages like Hebrew and Phoenician took sh
 ape over time.
LOCATION:Runcie Room\, Faculty of Divinity\, West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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