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Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings. Challenges for Historical Sociolinguistics [PDF]
, 2017 This book explores the linguistic expression of identity, intended as the social positioning of self and others, by focusing mostly on a scenario of prolonged language contact, namely the ancient Mediterranean area.
Molinelli, Piera
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 318-329, July 2026.Abstract This paper offers a reflection on methodological issues surrounding the historical study of deification in response to the approach proposed in the Oxford Handbook of Deification. The paper contextualises the OHD's proposal in light of previous attempts to address the question of how to define/identify the concept of deification.
Brendan A. Harris
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Relativization in Aramaic-Syriac [PDF]
, 2010 This paper is a preliminary approach to relativization in Syriac, which is a dialect of Aramaic, a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic family. This study will concentrate on the morpheme ‘d-’ as a “relative morpheme”.
Skaf, Roula
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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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Compiling and Annotating a Syriac Corpus [PDF]
, 2008 PDF of Powerpoint Presentation on compiling and annotating a Syriac corpus.
Taylor, David +11 more
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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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The syntax of Syriac Proverbs [PDF]
, 2015 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF LUORD A. SAMAAN ALKHOZAIMI, for the Master of Arts degree in APPLIED LINGUISTICS, presented on 04/06/15, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: THE SYNTAX OF SYRIAC PROVERBS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr.
Alkhozaimi, Luord Abdulsalam
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 815-832, October 2024.Abstract This essay attempts to address a simple question: what does it mean to hear God? So much hangs upon learning something about hearing God: revelation, salvation, formation, vocation and mission, for example. What is the relationship then between hearing and knowing God?
Graham Ward
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An Old Uigur medical fragment in Syriac script [PDF]
The Museum of Asian Art in Berlin holds a single-folio fragment (shelf-mark M 152) of an Old Uigur medical text written in the Syriac script. It is the only known manuscript in the entire collection of Old Uigur texts of the Church of the East that deals
László Károly, Károly, László,
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Lebanese Phoenicianism: Rebutting Anthony Smith's Ethno‐Symbolism
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 118-128, September 2024.Abstract Examining national awakening in early twentieth‐century Lebanon tests the validity of Anthony D. Smith's ethno‐symbolism, which argues that modern national movements arise from older or ancient ethnic cores, which Smith calls ethnies. Since ethno‐symbolism contradicts Eric Hobsbawm's notion of an “invented tradition,” contrasting Smith with ...
Alexander Maxwell, David Hannah
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