SEM 4000 Innledende metode- og kildekurs i semittisk språkvitenskap våren 2007
Bakgrunnlitteratur (viktige utdrag blir utdelt av faglæreren)

1	Innføring: metodologi, terminologi
–	Crystal, David. 1997 (4th ed.). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford: Blackwell.

2	Leksikografi
2.1	Ordbøker til komparativ afroasiatisk
–	Ehret, Christopher. 1995. Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary. Berkeley: University of California Press.
–	Orel, Vladimir E. & Olga V. Stolbova. 1995. Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary. Materials for a Reconstruction. Leiden: Brill.

2.2	Ordbøker til komparativ semittisk
–	Cohen, David. 1970-1997. Dictionnaire des racines sémitiques ou attestés dans les langues sémitiques, comprenant un fichier comparatif de Jean Cantineau. Paris: Mouton – Leuven: Peeters.
–	Leslau, Wolf. 1987. Comparative Dictionary of Gecez (Classical Ethiopic). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
–	Militarev, Alexander & Leonid Kogan. 2000. Semitic Etymological Dictionary. Vol. 1. Anatomy of Man and Animals. Münster: Ugarit Verlag.

2.3	Ordbøker til enkelte språk
–	Black, Jeremy, Andrew George, & Nicholas Postgate. 2000 (2nd corr. print). A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
–	Biella, Joan Copeland. 1982. Dictionary of Old South Arabic. Sabaean Dialect. Chico: Scholars Press.
–	Hoftijzer, J. & K. Jongeling. 1995. Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill.
–	Krahmalkov, Charles R. 2000. Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters.
–	del Olmo Lete, Gregorio & Joaquín Sanmartín. 2003. A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Leiden: Brill.

3	Skrivesystemer og fonologi
–	Bolozky, Shmuel. 1997. “Israeli Hebrew Phonology”, in: Alan Kaye (ed.). Phonologies of Asia and Africa, vol. 1, 287-311. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
–	Goerwitz, Richard. 1996. “The Jewish Scripts”, in: Peter Daniels and William Bright (eds.). The World's Writing Systems, 487-498. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
–	Khan, Geoffrey. 1997. “Tiberian Hebrew Phonology”, in: Alan Kaye (ed.). Phonologies of Asia and Africa, vol. 1, 85-102. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
–	Morag, Shelomo. 1972. The Vocalization Systems of Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Den Haag: Mouton.
–	O'Connor, M. 1996. “Epigraphic Semitic Scripts”, in: Peter Daniels and William Bright (eds.). The World's Writing Systems, 88-107. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
–	Rendsburg, Gary. 1997. “Ancient Hebrew Phonology”, in: Alan Kaye (ed.). Phonologies of Asia and Africa, vol. 1, 65-83. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

4	Morfologi og syntaks
4.1.	Komparativ indoeuropeisk og afroasiatisk grammatikk
–	Bomhard, A. 1984. Toward Proto-Nostratic. A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
–	Greenberg, J. “Internal a-plurals in Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic).” In J. H. Greenberg, On Language (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Pr., 1990), pp. 397-404.
–	Hetzron, R. “Afroasiatic languages.” In The World’s Major Languages (ed. B. Comrie. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1987), pp. 647-653.
–	Hodge, C. “Afroasiatic languages.” In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ed. R. E. Asher. Oxford: Pergamon, 1994), vol. I, pp. 50b-52a.
–	Lieberman, S. “Word order in the Afro-Asiatic languages.” In Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1986), division D, vol. 1, pp. 1-8.
–	Newman, P. “Hausa and the Chadic languages.” In The World’s Major Languages (ed. B. Comrie. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1987), pp. 705-723.
–	Zaborski. A. “Afro-Asiatic languages.” In International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (ed. W. Bright. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1992), pp. 36-37.

4.2 Komparativ semittisk grammatikk
–	Bennett, Patrick. 1998. Comparative Semitic Linguistics. A Manual. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (ISBN 1-57506-021-3).
–	Bergsträsser, Gotthelf (translated by Peter T. Daniels). 1983. Introduction to the Semitic Languages. Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches. Third printing. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, (ISBN:0931464102).
–	Blau, J. “Some difficulties in the reconstruction of ‘proto-Hebrew’ and ‘proto-Canaanite.’” In In memoriam Paul Kahle (BZAW 103. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1968), pp. 29-43.
–	Brockelmann, Carl. 1908/1913 [1999]. Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen. I/II. Hildesheim: Georg Olms (ISBN 3-487-00062-8 / ISBN 3-487-00063-8).
–	Brugnatelli, V. Questioni di morfologia e sintassi dei numerali cardinali semitici. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1982.
–	Diakonoff, I. “Problems of root structure in proto-Semitic.” ArOr 38 (1970): 453-480.
–	Goldenberg, G. “Principles of Semitic word-structure.” In Semitic and Cushitic studies (ed. G. Goldenberg and Sh. Raz. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994), pp. 29-64.
–	Gragg, G. “Semitic languages.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (ed. E. M. Meyers. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1997), vol. 4, pp. 516-527.
–	Greenberg, J. “The Semitic ‘intensive’ as verbal plurality.” In Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau (ed. A. S. Kaye. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1991), pp. 577-587.
–	Hetzron, R. “Semitic languages.” In The World’s Major Languages (ed. B. Comrie. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1987), pp. 654-663.
–	Hetzron, Robert. 1997. The Semitic Languages. London: Routledge (ISBN 0-415-05767-1).–	Huehnergard, J. “Semitic languages.” In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (ed. J. M. Sasson. New York: McMillan, 1995), vol. IV, pp. 2117-2134.
–	Johnstone, T. The Modern South Arabian Languages. AAL 1/5. Malibu, California: Undena, 1975.
–	Khan, G. Studies in Semitic Syntax (LOS 38. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1988).
–	Krebernik, M. “The linguistic classification of Eblaite: Methods, problems, and results.” In The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-First Century: The W. F. Albright Centennial Conference (ed. J. S. Cooper and G. M. Schwartz. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1996), pp. 233-249.
–	Kurylowicz, J. “Verbal aspect in Semitic.” Or. n.s. 42 (1973): 114-120.
–	Lambdin, T. “The junctural origin of the West Semitic article.” In Near Eastern Studies in Honor of W. F. Albright (ed. H. Goedicke. Baltimore: Hopkins Univ. Pr., 1971), pp. 315-333.
– Lipinski, Edward. 2001 (2nd ed.). Semitic Languages. Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Leuven: Peeters (ISBN 90-429-0815-7).
–	Loprieno, A. Das Verbalsystem im Ägyptischen und im Semitischen. Zur Grundlegung einer Aspekttheorie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986.
– Moscati, Sabatino et al. 1964. An Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
–	Müller, H. “Ergative constructions in early Semitic languages.” JNES 54 (1995): 261-271.
–	Rabin, C. “The genesis of the Semitic tense system.” In Current Progress in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (ed. J. Bynon. Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 1984), pp. 391-397.
–	Ratcliffe, R. “Defining morphological isoglosses: The ‘broken’ plural and Semitic subclassification.” JNES 57 (1998): 81-123.
–	Retsö, J. “State and plural marking in Semitic.” In Built on Solid Rock: Studies in Honour of Prof. E. E. Knudsen (ed. E. Wardini. Oslo: Novus Vorlag, 1997), pp. 268-282.
–	Retsö, J. Diathesis in the Semitic Languages. Leiden: Brill, 1989.
–	Schramm, G. “Semitic morpheme structure typology.” In Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau (ed. A. S. Kaye. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1991), pp. 1402-1408.
–	Testen, D. Parallels in Semitic Languages: The Development of Arabic la- and Related Semitic Particles (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 135-182.
–	Ullendorff, E. “The form of the definite article in Arabic and other Semitic languages.” In Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honor of H. A. R. Gibb (ed. G. Makdisi. Camdridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1965), pp. 631-637.
–	Waltke, Bruce K. og M. O'Connor. 1990. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.
–	Zaborski, A. “Exceptionless incompatibility rules and verbal root structure in Semitic.” In Semitic and Cushitic Studies (ed. G. Goldenberg and Sh. Raz. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994), pp. 1-18.

5	Tekstkritikk (edisjonsmetodologi)
–	McCarter, Peter Kyle. 1986. Textual Criticism. Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible. Philadelphia: Fortres Press.
–	Tov, Emanuel. 2001 (2nd ed.). Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
–	Würthwein, Ernst. 1988 (5th ed.). Der Text des Alten Testaments. Eine Einführung in die Biblia Hebraica. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.

6	Konkordanser
–	Andersen, Francis I. & Forbes, A. Dean. 1992. The Vocabulary of the Old Testament. Roma: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico.

7	Internetkilder
• http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/
(glossary of linguistic terms)

• http://semitistik.uni-hd.de/sonst.htm
(Semitic links worldwide)

• http://www.semarch.uni-hd.de/index.php4
(modern Semitic acoustic archive)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language
(introductory information on Hebrew)

• http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/Afro,045Asiatic/
   Hebrew
(links to Hebrew online-dictionaries and online-grammars, Israeli online-news-papers and online-radio stations)

• http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/
   Afro-Asiatic/Hebrew
(links to grammatical information on Hebrew)

• http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
(detailed information on Judaism and Hebrew literature)

• http://kodesh.snunit.k12.il
(Tanakh, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud, Rambam’s Mishne Tora)

• http://www.mechon-mamre.org
(Tanakh, Mishna, Rambam’s Mishne Tora)

• http://www.chaver.com/Mishnah/TheMishnah.htm
(Mishna)

• http://benyehuda.org
(pre-modern Hebrew literature)

• http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/index.html
(homepage of the Academy of the Hebrew Language)

• http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1
(modern Hebrew literature – a bio-bibliographical lexicon)