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CATEGORIES:Semitic Philology Lecture
SUMMARY:Language Situations in Syria-Palestine between 150
 0 and 500 B.C.: The Emergence of Northwest Semitic
  - Professor Holger Gzella\, University of Leiden
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UID:TALK11213AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/11213
DESCRIPTION:Despite intensive research\, the so-called "Northw
 est Semitic" family\,which includes Canaanite and 
 Aramaic\, continues to be an elusive concept. This
  lecture will attempt to enrich historical-compara
 tive approaches with ideas taken from dialect geog
 raphy and sociolinguistics in order to depict the 
 complex\nlinguistic map of ancient Syria-Palestine
 . Rather than identifying features of "Northwest S
 emitic" as such\, it will try to outline the proce
 ss in which languages like Hebrew and Phoenician t
 ook shape over time.
LOCATION:Runcie Room\, Faculty of Divinity\, West Road (Sid
 gwick Site)
CONTACT:Geoffrey Khan
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