The Semitic languages an international handbook - Weninger, Stefan 1959-; Khan, Geoffrey 1958-; Streck, Michael P. 1965-; Watson, Janet C. E. 1959- (De Gruyter Mouton, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Introduction; I. Semitic in an Afroasiatic Context; 2. Semitic-Egyptian Relations; 3. Semitic-Berber Relations; 4. Semitic-Chadic Relations; 5. Semitic-Cushitic/Omotic Relations; II. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic and Models of Classification; 6. Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology; 7. Reconstructive Morphology; 8. Proto-Semitic Lexicon; 9. Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification of the Semitic Languages; III. The Semitic Languages and Dialects I: Their Typology; 10. Morphological Typology of Semitic; 11. Syntactic Typology of Semitic
IV. The Semitic Languages and Dialects II: East Semitic12. Akkadian in General; 13. Eblaite and Old Akkadian; 14. Babylonian and Assyrian; 15. Akkadian and Sumerian Language Contact; 16. Akkadian as a Diplomatic Language; 17. Akkadian and Aramaic Language Contact; V. The Semitic Languages and Dialects III: North-West Semitic; 18. Northwest Semitic in General; 19. Amorite; 20. Ugaritic; 21. Phoenician and Punic; 22. Biblical Hebrew; 23. Mishnaic Hebrew; 24. Modern Hebrew; 25. Hebrew as the Language of Judaism; 26. The Re-Emergence of Hebrew as a National Language; 27. Old Aramaic
28. Imperial Aramaic29. Imperial Aramaic as an Administrative Language of the Achaemenid Period; 30. Late Imperial Aramaic; 31. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic; 32. Samaritan Aramaic; 33. Christian Palestinian Aramaic; 34. Syriac; 35. Syriac as the Language of Eastern Christianity; 36. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic; 37. Mandaic; 38. Western Neo-Aramaic; 39. Turoyo and Mlah?sô; 40. North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic; 41. Neo-Mandaic; 42. Language Contact between Aramaic Dialects and Iranian; 43. Aramaic-Arabic Language Contact; VI. The Semitic Languages and Dialects IV: Languages of the Arabian Peninsula
44. Ancient North Arabian45. Classical Arabic; 46. Arabic as the Language of Islam; 47. Middle Arabic; 48. Creating a Modern Standard Language from Medieval Tradition: The Nahda and the Arabic Academies; 49. Modern Standard Arabic; 50. Arabic Dialects (general article); 51. Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula; 52. Arabic Dialects of Mesopotamia; 53. Dialects of the Levant; 54. Dialects of Egypt and Sudan; 55. Arabic in the North African Region; 56. Arabic Sociolinguistics; 57. Arabic Urban Vernaculars; 58. Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles; 59. Berber and Arabic Language Contact