{"title":"The Faifi Arabic [St] Reflex of Ṣād: Proto-Semitic or Substrate?*","authors":"Davis S, Alfaifi A.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab031","url":null,"abstract":"<span><div>Abstract</div>This paper argues against the view that the unusual reflex of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">ṣād</span> as [st] in Faifi Arabic stems from a metathesized version of the Proto-Semitic glottalized affricate * <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">cʾ</span>([tsʾ]), as in Alfaifi and Behnstedt (2010: 53–4), where [st] is assumed to pattern as monosegmental. Instead we propose that the [st] reflex of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">ṣād</span> in Faifi Arabic reflects a South Arabian ejective or glottalized fricative <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">*sʾ</span> as a substrate feature. We first argue that Faifi Arabic [st] patterns as bisegmental based on linguistic argumentation internal to the dialect. We then discuss <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">*s’</span>as a feature of South Arabian varieties that can be considered as part of the Faifi substrate. We then detail how it is phonetically plausible for ejective <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">sʾ</span> to ‘break’ into a sequence of a fricative followed by a stop, such as [st], accounting for its bisegmental patterning and its realization as pharyngealized [ṣ] where [st] is phonotactically impossible.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimund Leicht and Giuseppe Veltri (eds), Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology","authors":"Vidro N.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab039","url":null,"abstract":"<span>LeichtReimund and VeltriGiuseppe (eds), <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology</span> (Studies in Jewish History and Culture 57). Pp. x + 284. Price: €149.00 hardback. ISBN: 978-90-04-41298-9.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assaf Bar-Moshe 2019. The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Baghdad: Phonology, Morphology, and Texts","authors":"Colasuonno M.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab038","url":null,"abstract":"<span>Bar-MosheAssaf2019. <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Baghdad: Phonology, Morphology, and Texts</span> (Semitica Viva: 58). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden2019. Pp. xii + 302. Price: €58.00. ISBN: 978-3-447-11171-3.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Debate of Menaḥem and Dunash and a Frame-work for Non-Triliteral Hebrew Verbal Morphology*","authors":"Dachman J.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab026","url":null,"abstract":"<span><div>Abstract</div>This study presents a new suggestion as to the fundamental disagreement between the morphological theories of Menaḥem b. Saruq and Dunash b. Labraṭ, two tenth-century Hebraists with non-triliteral perspectives of the Hebrew root. A framework detailing the possible analyses of Hebrew verbal morphology without <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">a priori</span> assuming the triliteral perspective is first developed. It is noted that the multiplicity of possible analyses in this framework parallels the ‘Segmentation Problem’ of Romance languages due to thematic vowels. Based on analysis of their treatises it is then argued that Menaḥem generally follows one identified method of analysis, and Dunash another. Finally it is suggested that these different methods of analysis are rooted in two different models of morphology, with Menaḥem holding a morpheme-based model and Dunash holding a word-based model. An English translation of a lengthy relevant section of the introduction to Menaḥem’s treatise is given as an appendix.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marlene Guss-Kosicka, Die Verbalsysteme des Amharischen und Tigrinischen. Eine vergleichende Analyse","authors":"Bulakh M.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab036","url":null,"abstract":"<span>Guss-KosickaMarlene, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Die Verbalsysteme des Amharischen und Tigrinischen. Eine vergleichende Analyse</span> (Studien zum Horn von Afrika 7). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln2019. Pp. xix + 336. Price: €69.80 hardback. ISBN: 978-3-89645-687-8.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yael Reshef, Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew","authors":"Yampolskaya S.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab042","url":null,"abstract":"<span>ReshefYael, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew</span>. Lexington Books, Lanham, MA2019. Pp. vii + 141. Price: $85.00 hardback. ISBN: 978-1-4985-8449-4.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curating the Syriac Literary Heritage in Egyptian Monasteries: A Newly Identified Numeral System in Syriac (British Library, add. 14587)*","authors":"Forness P.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab027","url":null,"abstract":"<span><div>Abstract</div>Syriac manuscripts feature several systems of numerals, and earlier studies have identified three based on the Syriac alphabet. Marginal notes found in the manuscript London, British Library, Add. 14587 preserve a fourth and previously undescribed alphabetic numeral system. After presenting this system and discussing the evidence that led to its identification, this article argues on palaeographic grounds that the late eighth century forms a <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">terminus post quem</span> for the numerals found in this manuscript. Analyses of a donation note and another manuscript further suggest that the numerals were added by a monk or monks from the Syriac tradition residing in Egypt, associated with either a monastery in Upper Egypt or the Monastery of the Syrians (Dayr al-Suryan) in Wadi al-Naṭ. In either case, the alphabetic numeral system found in the margins of this manuscript reflects theefforts of Syriac monastic communities in Egypt to curate the Syriac literary heritage and shape the way others encountered it.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benjamin D. Suchard, The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels","authors":"Lundberg J.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab035","url":null,"abstract":"<span>SuchardBenjamin D., <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels</span> (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 99), Brill, Leiden2019. Pp xii + 304. Price: €94.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-39025-6.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pronominal Subject Expression in Spoken Modern Hebrew: A Diachronic Perspective","authors":"Shor L, Reshef Y, Gonen E.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab030","url":null,"abstract":"<span><div>Abstract</div>As a consequence of the sociolinguistic circumstances of its emergence, the morpho-syntactic profile of Modern Hebrew (MH) originates in several sources – classical layers of Hebrew, pre-existing written practices, contact-induced influence of the native languages of the early MH speakers and internal linguistic developments. Adopting a diachronic corpus-based perspective, the present study focuses on one morpho-syntactic feature, the distribution of first and second person free subject pronouns with suffix (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">qaṭal</span>) and prefix ( <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">yiqṭol</span>) conjugation verbs. In contrast to the mainly synchronic studies of that feature in MH, the starting point of the present study is data extracted from historical recordings documenting the spontaneous speech of four generations of MH speakers over more than 50 years. Our data indicate two opposite trends: On the one hand, there is a relative stability in the rates of free pronoun usage from the 1960s until the 2010s in two aspects: the near obligatory presence of the free 1SG pronoun <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">ani</span> in the prefix-conjugation, and the relatively low rates of free pronouns in the remaining persons. On the other hand, a significant decrease in the use of the 1SG pronoun <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">ani</span> in the suffix-conjugation was found throughout the years.1<sup>1</sup></span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ilan Eldar, From Mendelssohn to Mendele: The Emergence of Modern Literary Hebrew","authors":"Shatil N.","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgab041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgab041","url":null,"abstract":"<span>EldarIlan, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">From Mendelssohn to Mendele: The Emergence of Modern Literary Hebrew</span>. Carmel Publishing House, Jerusalem2014. Pp. 261 (Hebrew). Price: $22.00. ISBN: 978-965-540-454-8.</span>","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}