Says reviewer Peter Daniels, the wordlists "constitute a unique resource for all of comparative linguistics-a considerable quantity of uniform data from a host of related languages. By far the largest component of the book are the nine wordlists that provide the data to be manipulated by the student.
It is suited for students with at least a year of a Semitic language. It is an innovative volume that recalls the earlier tradition of textbooks of comparative philology, which, however, exclusively treated Indo-European languages.
Comparative Semitic Linguistics Book Review:Īs the title indicates, this unique resource is a manual on comparative linguistics, with the examples taken exclusively from Semitic languages.
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