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Article: Comparative Semitic Linguistics: A Manual.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Comparative Semitic Linguistics: A Manual. By PATRICK R. BENNETT. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1998. Pp. xii + 269, maps, illus. $29.50.
The author of this work has undertaken a worthy task. His subject is important, underworked, and demanding. As someone who has begun but not completed a similar project (though with a different format), the reviewer can empathize with the amount of work involved in assembling and making some sense of such a large amount of data.
Bennett writes for English readers, assumes only one year's study of a single Semitic language, and takes care to introduce terms and concepts for those with no background in general and ...