From Tur Abdin to Hadramawt

Semitic Studies. Festschrift in Honour of Bo Isaksson on the occasion of his retirement. Edited by Tal Davidovich, Ablahad Lahdo, and Torkel Lindquist

Ablahad Lahdo, Tal Davidovich, Torkel Lindquist

• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9783447102650
• eBook ISBN: 9783447193412
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

From Tur Abdin to Hadramawt is a festschrift in honor of Professor Bo Isaksson, Uppsala University, on the occasion of his retirement. The volume consists of articles presenting different aspects of research in the field of semitic languages, with a special emphasis on research fields Professor Isaksson himself has taken an interest in; that is, among others, studies on morpho-syntactical issues, and studies of Modern Colloquial Arabic and Neo-Aramaic. Eran Cohen contributes a study on presentatives in Biblical Hebrew and Neo-Aramaic, and Lutz Edzard has written on epexegetical genitive in the Sura-titles of the Quran. Helene Kammensjö has written on pace and circumstance in oral Arabic narration, Geoffrey Khan on infinitives and verbal nouns in Neo-Aramaic (Urmi), and Ablahad Lahdo on the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Bequsyone. Torkel Lindquist's article is on circumstantial qualifiers in MSA and Modern Hebrew, Stig Norin's on Biblical Hebrew from the 2nd century A.D., and Sina Tezel's on the comparative method on MCA and related subjects. Werner Arnold has written on the Arabic dialect of Lydda, Tal Davidovich on vocalization and case endings in Judeo Yemenite, Maria Persson on verb form switch as marker of discourse hierarchy in Syrian MCA, and Stephan Procházka on plural pronouns in MCA. Joseph Saouk contributes his article on the Arabic dialect of Qellef, Shabo Talay has written on the Mesopotamian-Levantine dialect continuum, and Aziz Tezel on quadriradical verbal formations in MCA. Finally, Gail Ramsay has written on eco-aspects in Modern Arabic literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction
• Werner Arnold: Il-Lidd in Earlier Times A Text in the Arabic Dialect of Lydda (Israel)
• Eran Cohen: Presentatives in Comparative View: Biblical Hebrew and Neo-Aramaic
• Tal Davidovich: On Vocalization and Case Endings in Judeo Yemenite
• Lutz Edzard: The Epexegetical Genitive in Semitic and the Sūra Titles in the Qurʾān
• Heléne Kammensjö: Pace and Circumstance in Oral Arabic Narration: On Asyndesis and Verb Chaining in Egyptian Arabic
• Geoffrey Khan: Remarks on Infinitives and Verbal Nouns in the Christian Urmi Dialect of Neo-Aramaic
• Ablahad Lahdo: Bequsyone Texts Reflecting Cultural Aspects in Tur Abdin
• Torkel Lindquist: Circumstantial Qualifiers in Arabic and Hebrew Political Language
• Stig Norin: Hebrew in the Bar Koseva Era Observations in Some Documents from the Second Century AD
• Maria Persson: Verb Form Switch as a Marker of Discourse Hierarchy in a Case Study of Syrian Arabic ..
• Stephan Procházka: Feminine and Masculine Plural Pronouns in Modern Arabic Dialects
• Gail Ramsay: Breaking the Silence of Nature in an Arabic Novel Nazīf al-ḥajar by Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī
• Joseph Saouk: A Narrative Fragment from the Arabic Dialect of Qǝllǝf
• Shabo Talay: The Mesopotamian-Levantine Dialect Continuum
• Aziz Tezel: An Approach to Quadriradical Verbal Formations with /ʿ/ as Secondary in Some Arabic Dialects – Discussion of Some Examples
• Sina Tezel: The Comparative Method as Applied to the Semitic Cognate Sets with Phonological Correspondences