Article: Semitic Noun Patterns.(Book Review)

Semitic Noun Patterns. By JOSHUA FOX. Harvard Semitic Studies, vol. 52. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2003. Pp. xix + 361. $39.95.

This book, originally the author's Ph.D. dissertation, deals with noun patterns in the Semitic languages, such as qatl, qitl, and qutl, etc. (chapters 11-38 are listings of the various patterns, with copious examples). After three pages of discussion on the transliteration systems in vogue for the various Semitic languages (pp. xvii-xix), chapter 1 presents an introduction and summary of the work. Chapter 2 discusses the published literature in this domain, especially Jacob Barth's classic Die Nominalbildung in den semitischen ...

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