Language Studies

This volume contains the following essays: 

Yitzhak Avishur | Names of Jewish Holidays in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic

Ilan Eldar | The Hebrew of Dutch Sepharadim in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam

David M. Bunis | The Iberian Judeo-Arabic Roots of the Ladino Bible-Translation Tradition

Joshua Blau | Remarks on the Biblical Dictionary of David Alfasi

Joshua Blau and Joseph Yahalom | The Typology of Palestinian Vocalization Systems Preserved in Manuscripts from the Last Quarter of the First Millennium

Dror Ben-Arié | Miqneh Abram of Abraham de Balmes: A New Reading of a Sixteenth Century
Hebrew Grammar in the Light of Hebrew and Latin Treatises

Nasir Basal | On the Comparison between Languages in Tafsīr al-̓Alfāẓ by ̓Abū al-Faraj Hārūn: Comparisons to Rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic

Moshe Bar-Asher | The Limitations of Orthography, Script, and Morphology: A Problem of Mishnaic Hebrew Grammar

Elitzur Bar-Asher | Siegal Rhetorical Questions in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

Yochanan Breuer | Rabba and Rava, ’Abba and ’Ava - Spelling, Pronunciation, and Meaning

Chanoch Gamliel | Lexical Definitions in Menaḥem’s Maḥberet and Rashi’s Commentary

Santiago García-Jalón | Manuscripts that Preceded the Introductiones of Alfonso de Zamora

Aron Dotan | The Double Pronunciation of the Ancient Resh
Jonathan Howard | Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek: The List of Languages in Me’or ‘Ayin and the Transmission of Diqduqe ha-Miqra

Yehudit Henschke | On the Language of the Musta‘arabi Jews of Peqi‘in: between Jewish Arabic and Local Arabic – A Look at the Names of the Holidays

Doron Yaakov | Remarks on a Verbal Form in the Yemenite Tradition of Mishnaic Hebrew

Geoffrey Khan | The Pronunciaton of Dageš in the Tiberian Tradition of Biblical Hebrew

Asher Laufer | Contemporary Realizations of Qameṣ: The Pronunciation of Qameṣ before a Ḥaṭef-Qameṣ

José Martinez Delgrado | The Making of Accumulative Lists in the Maḥberet of Menaḥem ben Saruq

Hananel Mirsky | The Maḥberet Menaḥem According to the Critical Edition of Sáenz-Badillos

Yosef Ofer | Two Masoretic Notes about Words Vocalized with a Qameṣ and Their Metamorphosis

Steven E. Fassberg | Perfect Third Masculine Singular בעו and Related Forms in Samaritan Aramaic

Yona Sabar | Hebrew in the Shadow of Neo-Aramaic: Mizraḥi Hebrew as Reflected in the Report of a Kurdish Hakham Traveling in Kurdistan in 1932

Moshe Kahan | The Transformation of Ellipsis from an Exegetical Rule to a Logical Theorem in Kaspi’s Work

Michael Ryhzik | Orthographic Differences between Orders of the Mishnah in MS Kaufmann

Yael Reshef | Distinctive Lexical Features in the Written Hebrew of the Revival Period

Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald | The Common Denominator Principle in the Formation of Israeli Hebrew

Joseph Chetrit | Representations of the Jewish Community and Communal Ethos: A Socio-Pragmatic and Linguistic Analysis of a Hebrew Elegy by R. Shemuel Haliwa (Meknes, 1790)

Joseph Tedghi | Neologism and Rare Forms in the Spiritual Works of the Sages of Morocco

Ofra Tirosh-Becker | Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic of Bar Mitzva Homilies from Ghardaïa

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