Semitic Languages in Contact

Aaron Michael Butts, Ph.D. (2013), University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America. He has published on Semitic linguistics, including language contact, as well as Christianity in the Near East, especially Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic.

• A Thamudic B Abecedary in the South Semitic Letter Order Ahmad Al-Jallad and Ali Al-Manaser Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic. Ancient Contact Features in Ge'ez and Amharic David Appleyard Hebrew Adverbialization, Aramaic Language Contact, and mpny 'sr in Exodus 19:18 Samuel Boyd and Humphrey Hardy The Distribution of Declined Participles in Aramaic-Hebrew and Hebrew-Aramaic Translations Yochanan Breuer The Proto-Semitic "Asseverative *la-" and the Innovative 1sg Prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Languages Maria Bulakh Egyptianizing Features in Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions from Egypt David Calabro Head-Marking in Neo-Aramaic Genitive Constructions and the ezafe Construction in Kurdish Eran Cohen Notes on Foreign Words in Hatran Aramaic Riccardo Contini and Paola Pagano Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium bce C. Jay Crisostomo Inner-Semitic Loans and Lexical Doublets vs. Genetically Related Cognates Lutz Edzard Structural Change in Urban Palestinian Arabic Induced by Contact with Modern Hebrew Uri Horesh Language Contact as Reflected in the Consonant System of Turoyo Otto Jastrow Lexical Borrowings in the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale Lily Kahn Possible Ugaritic Influences on the Hurrian of Ras Shamra-Ugarit in Alphabetic Script Joseph Lam The Lexical Component in the Aramaic Substrate of Palestinian Arabic Mila Neishtadt The Classification of Hobyot Aaron D. Rubin Expression of Attributive Possession in Tunisian Arabic: The Role of Language Contact Lotfi Sayahi Aramaic Loanwords in G ' z Jurgen Tubach Language Contact between Akkadian and Northwest Semitic Languages in Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age Juan-Pablo Vita Semitic Languages in Contact-Syntactic Changes in the Verbal System and in Verbal Complementation Tamar Zewi and Mikhal Oren Index

This rich and remarkable volume carefully edited by Aaron Michael Butts in the Brill series on Semitic linguistics offers a wide spectrum of cases of interference in Semitic and provides materials for general reflection on the phenomenon. - Alessandro Bausi, Universität Hamburg In: Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 19 (2016).Undoubtedly, this sondage, with its considerable breadth of method, topic, languages and chronological span, will stimulate further studies in such a fascinating and challenging field. We look forward to the next volume. - W.G.E. Watson in: Journal of Semitic Studies vol 63, issue 1 (Spring 2018).