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1	The Apocalypse and Semitic Syntax more books like this by Steven Thompson, Dr. John Court, B.A., PhD (Editor) add to wishlist This book offers a consistent explanation of the peculiarity of the language of the Apocalypse (or Book of Revelation), namely that the rules of Greek grammar are broken because of the influence of Hebrew and Aramaic. It advances previous similar hypotheses in three ways. First, it focuses chiefly on the verbal system. Secondly, by methodically ... see all copies from $31.17! new only from $31.17! \| SVS
2	Essays on the Occasion of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Dropsie University, 1909-1979 more books like this by Leon Nemoy (Editor), Abraham I. Katsh (Editor), Dropsie University add to wishlist see all copies from $2.69! new only from $2.69! \| first editions
3	Computational Nonlinear Morphology: With Emphasis on Semitic Languages more books like this by George Anton Kiraz add to wishlist By the late 1970s phonologists, and later morphologists, had departed from a linear approach for describing morphophonological operations to a non-linear one. Computational models, however, remain faithful to the linear model, making it very difficult, if not impossible, to implement the morphology of languages whose morphology is non ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $83.75! \| SVS
4	The Semitic Languages more books like this by Robert Hetzron (Editor) add to wishlist The Semitic Languages presents a unique, comprehensive survey of 23 languages from their origins in antiquity to the present day. The Semitic family occupies a position of great historical and linguistic significance. The spoken and written languages of the ancient Assyro-Babylonians, Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arabs spread widely throughout Europe, ... see all copies from $62.53! new only from $62.53! \| SVS
5	Early History of the Alphabet more books like this by Joseph Naveh add to wishlist Alphabetic writing is one of the principal features of Western culture. Our knowledge of the early history, development and spread of the alphabet is constantly changing. This introduction to West Semitic epigraphy and paleography is the author's personal way of introducing this field of study on the basis of the evidence available to date. see all copies from $57.62! new only from $57.62! \| first editions
6	Introduction to Semitic Comparative Linguistics more books like this by Louis Herbert Gray add to wishlist Although it is a discipline with a venerable heritage, comparative Semitic linguistics has long suffered from the difficulty of finding an introduction that does not already require a specialists' knowledge of the field. The primary languages Gray selected were Hebrew, the language most Semitic readers begin with, and Arabic, the most widely ... see all copies from $45.00! new only from $63.12! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Diathesis in the Semitic Languages: A Comparative Morphological Study more books like this by Jan Retso add to wishlist see all copies from $70.71! new only from $146.51! \| first editions
8	Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches more books like this by Gotthelf Bergstrasser add to wishlist see all copies from $44.55! new only from $44.55!
9	Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords in North-West Semitic more books like this by Yoshiyuki Muchiki add to wishlist Attempts to establish, from the North-West Semitic side, the phonetic correspondences between North-West Semitic (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Ugaritic) and ancient Egypt chronologically. Examines how North-West Semitic scribes wrote Egyptian in their Semitic writing systems, with concentration on consonantal correspondences. Shows historical ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $38.84! \| SVS
10	Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern more books like this by J N Postgate (Editor) add to wishlist For all five thousand years of its history, Iraq has been home to a mixture of languages, spoken and written, and the same is true today. In November 2003, to celebrate the country's rich diversity and long history as a centre of civilisation the British School presented a series of talks by experts on each of the major languages of Iraq and their ... see all copies from $33.78! new only from $33.78! \| SVS
11	Comparative Philology and Text of the Old Testament more books like this by James Barr add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! new only from $35.55!
12	Semitic Noun Patterns more books like this by Joshua Fox add to wishlist see all copies from $18.43! new only from $35.96!
13	ALA-LC romanization tables : transliteration schemes for non-Roman scripts more books like this by Randall K. Barry, Library of Congress, American Library Association add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
14	A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'?nic Arabic more books like this by Martin R Zammit add to wishlist This work does not aim to be an etymological dictionary of Qur'anic Arabic, nor does it attempt to suggest some new genetic classification of the Semitic languages. Rather, it offers insights into the internal lexical relationships attested in a number of Semitic varieties within Qur'anic Arabic (seventh century AD). The work is based on a ... see all copies from $248.80! new only from $273.01!
15 view cover	Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic Linguistics Presented to Gene B. Gragg more books like this by Cynthia L Miller (Editor) add to wishlist Professor Gene B Gragg's unbounded intellectual curiosity and rigorous linguistic method have served as a bridge between the often disparate fields of Semitic philology and linguistics, between the various sub-disciplines that study the ancient Near East, between the study of ancient languages by means of scribal corpora and modern languages by ... see all copies from $53.02! new only from $53.02! \| SVS
16	The Sheep of His Pasture: A Study of the Hebrew Noun 'Am(m) and Its Semitic Cognates more books like this by Robert M. Good add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.81! \| first editions
17 view cover	Semitic Writing more books like this by Godfrey Driver add to wishlist This is the third edition of the late Sir Godfrey Driver's Schweich Lectures, first delivered in 1944. The present edition is based on extensive revisions and additions made by the author himself. The third edition takes account of research and discoveries in the fields of Semitic epigraphy and the theory of writing. It deals with cuneiform ... see all copies from $102.28! new only from $116.07!
18	Sopher Mahir: Northwest Semitic Studies Presented to Stanislav Segert more books like this by Edward M. Cook add to wishlist see all copies from $32.00! new only from $39.15!
19	Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C. more books like this by W. Randall Garr add to wishlist see all copies from $35.20!
20 view cover	Studies in Semitic Linguistics more books like this by Gideon Goldenberg add to wishlist Collected in this volume are articles published over the last three decades, which deal with various aspects of Semitic languages in general, the structure of Hebrew, history of Arab grammatical tradition, Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic, Syriac syntax, and particularly with Ethiopian languages (Amharic and Old Amharic Gurage, Harari and Comparative ... see all copies from $66.70! new only from $103.98!
21 view cover	Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based Morphology more books like this by Geoff F Barnbrook add to wishlist see all copies from $169.06!
22	Northwest Semitic grammar and Job more books like this by Anton C. M. Blommerde, Pontificio Istituto biblico add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00!
23 view cover	Semitic Languages Outline of a Comparative Grammar more books like this by Edward Lipinski, Lipinski Ae add to wishlist The first comparative grammar of the Semitic languages, by H. Zimmern, was published a hundred years ago and the last original work of this kind was issued in Russian in 1972 by B.M. Grande. The present grammar, designed to come out in the centenary of the completion of Zimmern's work, fills thus a gap. Besides, it is based on both classical and ... see all copies from $169.00! new only from $169.00!
24 view cover	Comparative Semitic Linguistics more books like this by Patrick R Bennett add to wishlist see all copies from $42.75! new only from $42.75!
25	Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives more books like this by Hebrew Univerisity (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $44.55! new only from $44.55!

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