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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 59-83, March 2026.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Reconstructing Syntax [PDF]

, 2020
Contributing to the vigorous discussion of the viability of syntactic reconstruction, this volume offers methods for identifying i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, thus providing historical syntacticians with evidence ...

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Michael B. Ahland: Language Death in Mesmes: A Sociolinguistic and Historical-comparative Examination of a Disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic Language

Aethiopica, 2013
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Ronny Meyer
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Die Henne oder das Ei? azzo oder -zo? Weitere Spekulationen zu einem pronominalen Problem des Harari

Aethiopica
There is no consensus among Ethiopists on the question of whether the Harari enclitic possessive suffix 3sg. m. -zo is an eroded form of the personal pronoun azzo (Appleyard, Huehnergard and Pat-El) or whether azzo emerged from -zo by being prefixed ...
Ewald Wagner
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Semitic languages : past, present and future at the University of Pretoria [PDF]

, 1989
SUMMARY The academic discipline, Semitic languages comprises of four main language groups, namely North Eastern, North Western, South Western and South Eastern Semitic languages. Although the main emphasis in the Department of Semitic Languages falls

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Some Words in Reply

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 424-426, June 2026.
Andrew Brandel
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Semantic, Pragmatic, and Hermeneutic Approaches to Linguistic Analysis of Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin in Aramaic [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
The mysterious phrase “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin” from the Book of Daniel has fascinated scholars and theologians for centuries. Despite its significance in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, in-depth linguistic analysis of the phrase in Aramaic texts is ...
Isak Suria, Lucyana Yasmin, David Ming
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Corpus linguistics in cyberspace

, 2008
Review of Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf and Carolin Biewer (eds.): Corpus linguistics and the web. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 2007.
Lindquist, Hans, Lindquist, Hans,
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Bibliographie zur äthiosemitischen und kuschitischen Sprachwissenschaft XVIII: 2013

Aethiopica, 2016
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Rainer Voigt
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