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Aaron Michael Butts, ed., Semitic Languages in Contact
Aethiopica, 2017 Review
Alessandro Bausi
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Theory and description in African Linguistics [PDF]
, 2019 The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them.
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.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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Theological Librarianship, 2019 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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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.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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Gideon Goldenberg - Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.): Egyptian, Semitic and General Grammar
Aethiopica, 2011 Review
Alessandro Bausi
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.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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Convergenze tra lingue semitiche e lingue indo-europee. Replica a Sergio Basso
Lea, 2020 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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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Remarks on an Encyclopaedic Article on Tǝgre
Aethiopica, 2016 Review ...
Saleh M. Idris, Rainer Voigt
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