Lutz Edzard ed., Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized. A Festschrift for Jan Retsö
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Maria Bulakh
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Sumerian tablets in the Harvard Semitic museum / Copied by Mary Inda Hussey. [PDF]
Pt . I. Chiefly from the reigns of Lugalanda and Urukagina of Lagash. -- Pt . II. From the time of the dynasty of Ur. | Harvard Semitic series, vol.
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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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Anti-Semitism and criticism of Israel: Methodology and results of the ASCI survey [PDF]
Building upon psychological conflict theory, on the one hand, and item-response models, on the other, the present paper develops an integrated methodology that aims at differentiating the various ways of criticizing Israel.
Wilhelm Kempf
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The Form of Morphemes: MEG Evidence From Masked Priming of Two Hebrew Templates
Studies of lexical access have benefited from comparisons between languages like English, which shows concatenative morphology, and Semitic languages showing non-concatenative morphology of roots and patterns.
Itamar Kastner +7 more
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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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Clause Combining in Semitic : The circumstantial clause and beyond
Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 96. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015.418 pages.
Isaksson, Bo,, Persson, Maria,
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Jesus’ Non-Greek Sayings as Semitic Expressions: A Linguistic and Theological Study of Eli, Eli / Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani [PDF]
One of the most poignant moments in the Passion narratives is Jesus’ cry from the Cross, preserved in transliterated Semitic phrases within the Greek New Testament.
Timotius Sukarna +3 more
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne
ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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