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Publications on the Hebrew language are extensive, and so here I have provided an overview of significant touchstones among these works. Special attention is paid to comparative Semitic linguistics as well as to languages most closely related to Hebrew ...
Shawn Virgil Goodwin
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Gideon Goldenberg - Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.): Egyptian, Semitic and General Grammar
Review
Alessandro Bausi
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Notes on rabbinic epitaphs: I [PDF]
Jüdische Grabsteinepigraphik: R. Yosef Trani (1568-1639), R. Akiva Eger (d. 1837), R.
Leiman, Shnayer
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Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages [PDF]
This paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic
Francisco Marcos-Marin
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Remarks on an Encyclopaedic Article on Tǝgre
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Saleh M. Idris, Rainer Voigt
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Convergenze tra lingue semitiche e lingue indo-europee. Replica a Sergio Basso
Basso harshly criticizes Giovanni Semerano’s approach to the relations between Indo-European and Semitic languages and argues that on this topic it is better to look at the studies of Keller, Lewy and Lokotosch and those of the more recent scholars of ...
Giuseppe Ieropoli
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Old Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic : some reflections on language history [PDF]
Aramaic is not among the oldest Semitic languages in a strictly chronological sense, but among those languages which are still spoken today, it has the longest continuous written tradition.
Jastrow, Otto
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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