{"title":"Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin, <i>Arabic Sociolinguistics</i>.","authors":"Catherine Miller","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad032","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin, Arabic Sociolinguistics. Get access Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin, Arabic Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 238 pages, ISBN: 978-1-107-18261-5 Catherine Miller Catherine Miller Iremam, Aix Marseille University Address for author correspondence: millercatherine51@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, fgad032, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad032 Published: 27 September 2023","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"474 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135534732","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}
Janet C E Watson, Gisela Tomé Lourido, Abdullah al-Mahri
{"title":"Epenthesis and vowel intrusion in Central Dhofari Mehri","authors":"Janet C E Watson, Gisela Tomé Lourido, Abdullah al-Mahri","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper discusses epenthesis and vowel intrusion in the Central Dhofari variety of Mehri, one of six endangered Modern South Arabian languages indigenous to southern Arabia. Mehri is spoken by members of the Mahrah tribe in southern Oman, eastern Yemen, parts of southern and eastern Saudi Arabia and in communities in parts of the Gulf and East Africa. The estimated number of Mehri speakers is between 100,000–180,000. Following Hall (2006), this study distinguishes between two types of inserted vowels: epenthetic vowels, which repair illicit syllable structures, and intrusive vowels, which transition between consonants. The paper examines how the properties of epenthetic and intrusive vowels as proposed by Hall relate to Mehri.","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135534831","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":"On the Etymology of Biblical Hebrew טֶרֶם <i>Ṭɛrɛm</i> ‘before, not yet’","authors":"Ambjörn Sjörs","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper argues that the Biblical Hebrew grammatical morpheme טֶרֶם ṭɛrɛm ‘before, not yet’ is derived from a noun *tִVrm- meaning ‘(big) lip’.1","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136375732","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 Morphosyntax of Objects to Participles in the Qurʾān","authors":"Marijn van Putten","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines how Quranic text treats the construction of a participle in predicative position when it is followed by a direct object. While the medieval grammarians typically say that the participle may be either followed by the object in the accusative or form a construct phrase with it regardless of the definiteness of the object, close examination of the behaviour of participles in predicative positions in the Quranic text shows that a clear correlation presents itself. Indefinite objects are marked with the accusative, whereas definite objects are formed through a genitive construction. This thus means that the linguistic register of the Qurʾān, different from other forms of Classical Arabic, represents a kind of differential object marking on the objects of predicative participles, differentiating between indefinite and definite objects.","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135060230","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":"Several Genizah Fragments of Saadya Gaon's Translation of the Pentateuch Copied by Yedutun ben Levi","authors":"Tamar Zewi, Amir Ashur","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents several Genizah fragments containing passages of Saadya Gaon's translation of the Pentateuch in the handwriting of a copyist identified as Yedutun Ha-Levi ben Levi He-Ḥaver, who was active in the first half of the thirteenth century. These passages are transcribed in full in the article, together with a critical apparatus which compares them with early important manuscripts of Saadya Gaon's translation of the Pentateuch and the popular critical Derenbourg edition. The textual and grammatical analysis following these passages shows that their language should be regarded as post-Classical, and that both text and language broadly correspond with the early version of this translation, represented in MS St. Petersburg, RNL, MS Yevr. II C 1—the earliest inclusive manuscript of Saadya Gaon's translation of the Pentateuch copied by Samuel ben Jacob at the beginning of the eleventh century.","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135060238","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":"‘Unorthodox’ Usages of the Term <i>xabar</i> in the Early Arabic Grammatical Tradition","authors":"Almog Kasher","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the term xabar. It focuses on cases where xabar, or the dyad ism-xabar, is used at variance with canonical theory. These cases suggest that the triad X + X's ism + X's xabar (familiar when X = ʾinna, kāna and their ‘sisters’) was used to accommodate tripartite configurations whose so-called xabar is not a predicate, or whose ism and xabar are generally taken to be mubtadaʾ and xabar. This syntactic model, which differs significantly from the canonical theory of sentence types in the Arabic grammatical tradition, was most probably designed for pedagogical aims. This alternative model analyzes sentences according to their surface structure, with focus on initial constituents, whereas canonical syntactic model's point of departure is a distinction between sentence types, based on the concept of predication and taking into consideration word order variation. An appendix on the little-known grammarian al-Quhunduzī examines the history of the figure, who has in modern scholarship been confused with another author. Pinning down his identity and the period in which he lived dispels confusion about the figure, allowing us to better place his work in the scholarly record.","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135060227","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":"<scp>Endalew Assefa</scp>, <i>Descriptive Grammar of Ezha: A Gurage Language of Ethiopia (Ethio-Semitic)</i>","authors":"Aaron D Rubin","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad033","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Endalew Assefa, Descriptive Grammar of Ezha: A Gurage Language of Ethiopia (Ethio-Semitic) Get access Endalew Assefa, Descriptive Grammar of Ezha: A Gurage Language of Ethiopia (Ethio-Semitic). Aethiopische Forschungen 87. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2022. 281 pages. €78.00 hardback. ISBN: 978-3-44711-843-9. Aaron D Rubin Aaron D Rubin University of Georgia Address for correspondence: aaron.rubin@uga.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, fgad033, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad033 Published: 19 September 2023","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135063457","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 Christian Arabic dialect of Mērgī","authors":"Qasim Hassan","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The area northeast of Mosul, a collection of villages with varying topography and terrain, is known for being a mosaic of ethnic and religious minorities. The village of Mērgī, the focus of interest in this paper, is one of the historical Christian settlements in the area, located on the southern foot of the Mount Maqlūb. Based on a fieldwork carried out in 2022 in Mērgī, this article investigates the linguistic situation in this village and carries out comparisons with the other well-documented related dialects in the vicinity.","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135059972","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 Sufi Writing Tradition in Arabic","authors":"Arin Salamah-Qudsi","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper addresses Sufi writing in its contemporary third/ninth-fifth/eleventh century CE context, looking at how writing was shaped by other Sufi and non-Sufi forms. Beginning with an overview of the Sufi writing tradition in Arabic during Sufism's formative period, between the early third/ninth and the late sixth/twelfth centuries, the article goes on to discuss early Sufi piety and the ways it challenged common conceptions and epistemological paradigms of early medieval Islamic thought. Looking at the mid fourth/tenth century case of al-Niffarī shows how mystical piety interacterd with a deep-rooted tradition in Arabic literature to forge the unique dynamics of what we know today as Sufi writing.","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136024416","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 Evolution of Morpho-Syntactic Mood in Arabic: A View from early Christian Arabic Gospel Manuscripts","authors":"Phillip W Stokes","doi":"10.1093/jss/fgad023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad023","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article The Evolution of Morpho-Syntactic Mood in Arabic: A View from early Christian Arabic Gospel Manuscripts Get access Phillip W Stokes Phillip W Stokes The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Address for correspondence: pstokes2@utk.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, fgad023, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad023 Published: 11 September 2023","PeriodicalId":17130,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Semitic Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136024596","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}