Contents
New Page 1
Preface 9
Introduction: On the History and Structure of Hebrew 11
The
Monophthongization of Diphthongs as Reflected in the Use of Vowel Letters in the
Pentateuch 21
Non-Phonetic Conditioning of Sound Change and Biblical Hebrew 26
On Pausal
Lengthening, Pausal Stress Shift, Philippi's Law and Rule Ordering in Biblical
Hebrew 36
"Weak"
Phonetic Change and the Hebrew Sin 50
Hebrew
Stress Shifts, Pretonic Lengthening, and Segolization: Possible Cases of Aramaic
Interference in Hebrew Syllable Structure 104
Some
Remarks on the Prehistory of Stress in Biblical Hebrew 120
The
Parallel Development of the Feminine Ending –at in Semitic Languages 126
Remarks on
the Development of Some Pronominal Suffixes in Hebrew 138
Redundant
Pronominal Suffixes Denoting Intrinsic Possession 146
Studies in
Hebrew Verb Formation 155
On Some
Vestiges of Univerbalization of the Units and Tens of the Cardinalia
21-99 in Arabic and Hebrew 181
Marginalia
Semitica I 185
Marginalia
Semitica II 221
Marginalia
Semitica III 247
Some
Difficulties in the Reconstruction of "Proto-Hebrew" and "Proto-Canaanite" 266
A
Misunderstood Medieval Translation of sered (Isaiah 44:13) and Its Impact
on Modern Scholarship 283
Minutiae
Aramaicae
290
The Origins
of Open and Closed e in Proto-Syriac 299
Hebrew and
North West Semitic: Reflections on the Classification of the Semitic Languages
308
Some
Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Arabic Parallels 333
On Problems
of Polyphony and Archaism in Ugaritic Spelling 339
Short
Philological Notes on the Inscription of Mesac
344
Abbreviations 361
List of
Sources 363
Index of
Notions 367
Selected
Index of Words 372
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