Language and nature : papers presented to John Huehnergard on the occasion of this 60th birthday / edited by Rebecca Hasselbach and Na'ama Pat-El.

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Book
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English
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Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2012.
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xix, 476 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Functional values of iprus forms in old Babylonian s̆umma protases
  • The hypotaxis-parataxis dichotomy and elliptic conditional clauses in Semitic
  • t-stem verbs without metathesis in Aramaic and Hebrew documents from the Judean Desert
  • People without town : the ʻapiru in the Amarna evidence
  • Denominal, lexicalized hiphil verbs
  • The treatment of vowel lenght in Arabic grammar and its adaptation to Hebrew
  • Wisdom in Ugaritic
  • Predicate nominals and related constructions in Neo-Mandaic
  • Yaqtul and a Ugaritic incantation text
  • The verbal endings -u and -a
  • Ibn Khaldūn as a historical linguist with an excursus on the question of ancient gāf
  • A morphosyntactic explanation of tapôṣôtîkem
  • Canaano-Akkadian : linguistics and sociolinguistics
  • The evidential function of the perfect in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects
  • Les noms de plantes akkadiens dans leur contexte sémitique
  • Grammaticalization and the biblical Hebrew pseudo-cohortative
  • The biblical Hebrew verbal system in a nutshell
  • The syntax of ʼăs̆er and s̆eC
  • Late biblical Hebrew in the book of Haggai
  • Two modern South Arabian etymologies
  • "If water had not been made to dry up, this earth would have been drowned" : Pahlavi *āwās- 'to dry'
  • Vowel syncope and syllable repair processes in proto-Semitic construct forms
  • Reconciling some morphological eccentricities of the Semitic genitive case marker
  • Mixed linguistic features in a Judeo-Arabic text from Algeria
  • Alternierende Metrik in der akkadischen posie
  • On personal names ending in -āyu in the Amarna letters and in texts from Canaan
  • Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Concord area, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  • Verbal endings in the Afroasiatic prefix conjugations
  • Prepositional phrases as subjects in several Semitic languages.
ISBN
  • 1885923910
  • 9781885923912
LCCN
^^2011933159
OCLC
809031539
RCP
H - S
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