Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honor of Gideon Goldenberg. (AOAT 334)

Tali Bar, Eran Cohen

ISBN: 978-3-934628-84-7

Pub: 2007

387 pp.

Preface
Akkadian
Shlomo Izre’el - Segmental Length: A View from Akkadian
Arabic
Andrzej Zaborski - Non-Causative Verbs of the Causative ’aqtala Class in Arabic and *yuqtilu Conjugation in Proto-Semitic
Roni Henkin - Swaying on the Scale from Standard to Sound when Writing a Non-written Dialect
Rami Saari - Maltese ilu — The Only Postposition in a Language of Prepositions?
Aramaic 
Lucas Van Rompay - Oh that I had Wings like a Dove! Some Remarks on Exclamatory Clauses in Syriac
Yona Sabar - Agonies of Childbearing and Child Rearing in Iraqi Kurdistan: A Narrative in Jewish Neo-Aramaic and its English Translation
Geoffrey Khan - Ergativity in the North Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects
Eran Cohen - Zakho Neo-Aramaic and Old Babylonian Akkadian: The (Concessive-)Conditional Pattern 
Ethiopian
Tamar Zewi -Nominal Clause Patterns in the G5ʿ5z Octateuch
Rainer Voigt - Zur direkten Rede im Amharischen Egyptian
Ariel Shisha-Halevy - Determination-Signalling Environment in Old and Middle Egyptian: Work-Notes and Reflections
Hebrew
Tali Bar - On Pronouns in Hebrew Verbal Sentences
Dana Taube - Impersonal and Passive Constructions in Contemporary Hebrew
Rivka Halevy - The Subject Co-referential l- Pronoun in Hebrew
Semitic
John Huehnergard and Na’ama Pat-El - Some Aspects of the Cleft in Semitic Languages
Yiddish
Moshe Taube - How Imperfect Can a Cleft Sentence Be? Focusing dos- and es-Sentences in Yiddish
Index