Research Catalog

Title

Semitic studies : in honor of Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday, November 14th, 1991 / edited by Alan S. Kaye.

Publication

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, ©1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leslau, Wolf.
• Kaye, Alan S.

Description

2 volumes (lxviii, 1719 pages) : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

Subjects

• Leslau, Wolf, 1906-2006
• Leslau, Wolf > Anniversaries, etc
• Festschrifts (form)
• Semitic languages
• Semitic philology
• Semitische talen
• Anniversaries
• 18.70 Semitic languages and/or literature

Genre/Form

Festschrifts (form)

Note

• Papers in English, French, German, and Italian.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• v. 1. Lexical innovation in contemporary Ethiopic / Abraham Demoz -- Language and sex: the case of expatriate Iraqis / F. Abu-Haidar -- Precedence of vos over vso in modern standard Arabic / Dionisius A. Agius -- Computer-assisted statistical survey of Ethiopic verb patterns based on Wold Leslau's Concise dictionary of Ge'ez / Arne A. Ambros -- Influence of Arabic on Wollo Amharic / Amsalu Aklilu -- Ugaritic pronominals in the light of morphophonemic economy / Yoël L. Arbeitman -- Linguistic data and historical reconstruction: between Semitic and epigraphic South Arabian / Alessandra Avanzini -- Reviving a language: different roles for men, women, and children? / Aaron Bar-Adon -- Hebrew elements in North African Judeo-Arabic: alternations in meaning and form / Moshe Bar-Asher -- Is Hebrew qen "nest" a metaphor? / James Barr -- On some misspelt, misunderstood, and wrongly transmitted vocables in medieval Judeo-Arabic / Joshua Blau -- Questioning God's omnipotence in the Bible: a linguistic case study / Ariel A. Bloch -- Casual and formal vowel deletion in modern Hebrew / Shmuel Bolozky -- Ibn Jinnī's axiom "The adventitious determines the rule" / M.G. Carter -- Active participle as a means to renew the aspectual system: a comparative study in several dialects of Arabic / Dominique Caubet.
• v. 2. A propos de la valeur "intensive" de la IIème forme verbale en arabe Syrien: modalité et expressivité. Vers un renouvellement du système verbal? / Jérôme Lentin -- What is meant by al-maf'ūl al-muṭlaq? / Aryeh Levin -- Monosyllabic nominal and verbal roots in Semitic languages / E. Lipiński -- Observations on the traditional pronunciation of Hebrew among Italian Jews / Antonio Loprieno -- Vocalic length and centralization in two branches of Semitic (Ethiopic and Arabic) / Jean Lowenstamm -- Pseudo-Ethiopisms in Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic / Rudolf Macuch -- "Passif" en akkadien / J. Malbran-Labat -- Dubious, pseudo-, hybrid, and mock-Orientalisms in romance / Yakov Malkiel -- 'Transjacence' and 'interfacing' in Chaha songs and proverbs / Joseph L. Malone -- Some observations on South Semitic / Paolo Marrassini -- Quelques parallélismes sémantiques en relation avec la notion "couler" / Michel Masson -- D̲R, Ḳ3, GR: the intertwining of some roots in Egyptian and Semitic / Edmund S. Meltzer -- Deictic nature of alāku in Akkadian / Tova Meltzer -- De la cuisine familiale au commerce des spiritueux: remarques sur un parler de femme à Juba / Catherine Miller -- Graded isoglosses in East Aramaic / S. Morag.
• Zur Theorie der historisch vergleichenden Grammatik dargestellt am sprachgeschichtlichen Kontext des Althebräischen / Hans-Peter Müller -- On Proto-Semitic reconstructions / A. Murtonen -- Historical decay and growth ini the Hausa lexicon / Paul Newman -- Cardinal-direction terms in Biblical Hebrew / M. O'connor -- Theoretical gemination in Israeli Hebrew / Uzzi Ornan -- Local and universal sources of a Creole verbal construction / Jonathan Owens -- Structure of RS 1.002 / D. Pardee -- Allomorfi della flessione preteritale del dialetto neoaramaico orientale di Hertevin (Turchia) in prospettiva storica / Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti -- Hypothetical sentences in Jerusalem Arabic / Moshe Piamenta -- Schwa vowel in Amharic / Baruch Podolsky -- Several notes on text connectors in Amharic / Zdeněk Poláček -- Note on dialectical variation in Ennemor / Jean-François Prunet -- Names and numbers of the Pleiad / Jaan Puhvel -- Semitic South Ethiopic: the definite future revisited / Shlomo Raz -- Parallel developments in Mishnaic Hebrew, colloquial Arabic, and other varieties of spoken Semitic / Gary A. Rendsburg.

ISBN

• 3447031689
• 9783447031684

LCCN

2005700133

OCLC

• ocm26075216
• 26075216
• SCSB-1982561

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library