Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of the Concept ‘Speech’. Language Contacts between Semitic/Arabic and Indo-Germanic Languages

Abstract

This article presents a comparative study of Arabic among the Hamito-Semitic languages and German among the Germanic languages. We focus on the semantic aspect and the historical linguistic perspective of the comparison of these languages. The language contact study of L1 German and L2 Arabic as the language, which is the potential language for the intrusion into the German language required a diachronic study of the language contact situation among the languages within a long range of time. While we can clearly state that the Germanic and the Arabic languages belong to different language families, this article will focus on the examples of semantic similarities, which allows us to talk about the linguistic communication and language contact situation(s) between these languages Arabic and German/English.

Cuvinte-cheie: vorbirea, aspect diacronice şi sincronice, concept, contacte glotice, limbile semitico-arabe, limbile indo-germanice

REZUMAT

Articolul înglobează un studiu comparat, atât în domeniul semantic, cât şi în cel istoric, al arabei - o limbă din familia de limbi hamito-semitice - şi al germanei – o limbă din grupul germanic de limbi indo-europene. Cercetarea interferenţelor limbii germane cu limba arabă aceasta din urmă fiind în stare, potenţial, să pătrundă în prima, necesită un studiu diacronic al contactului dintre limbile date într-un interval de timp considerabil. În pofida faptului că limba germană și cea arabă aparțin unor familii de limbi diferite, în articol, se supun analizei asemănările lor semantice, care ne permit să vorbim despre contactul dintre limbile în cauză.

LANGUAGES OF PUBLICATION

English (main text); Latin and German (some fragments of the main text), French and English (some titles of scientific works); Arabic, Old English, Sanskrit, Indo-European, Greek, Hebrew, Slavic, Gothic, Avestan, Polish, Prussian, Lithuanian, Nordic, Briton, Proto-Semitic, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Syrian Aramaic, Mandaic Aramaic, Geʕez (Ethiopian), Tigre, Tigrai, Amharic, Gurage, Eurasiatic, Altaic, Uralic, Kartvelian, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Proto-Indo-European, Old Indian, Old Greek, Baltic, Germanic, Celtic Old Irish etc. (corpus)

UDC: 811.41-112/114:811.11-112/114

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Received: March 16, 2012 | Reviewed: March 28, 2012| Accepted for publication: March 29, 2012

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