Semitic languages

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Orientaliste, titulaire de la chaire de sociologie musulmane au Collège de France, Louis Massignon respecta et renouvela la tradition d'hospitalité savante des études arabes, iraniennes, turques, en révélant au public occidental les richesses de la spiritualité musulmane. Rien d…

The collection of articles in this volume is dedicated to Ramzi Baalbaki of the American University of Beirut on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It provides an interesting glimpse into the early medieval and modern traditions related to the Arabic language, its grammar, histo…

The Arabic plural system is of great linguistic interest due to its diversity, complexity, and resistance to classification. Arabic is a non-concatenative language that applies a masculine and feminine suffix plural, a dual, and a "broken plural" to mark number. The broken plura…

This dissertation is the first account of a previously undocumented dialect of Neo-Mandaic, a Semitic language belonging to the Eastern subgroup of Aramaic. It is the most detailed description of any dialect of Neo-Mandaic. The data contained within this dissertation was collect…