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Morphology and Markedness: On Verb Switching in Hebrew Poetry 形态学与标记性：论希伯来语诗歌中的动词转换

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-28 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9322

Elizabeth Robar

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The Significance of Three Methods of Grouping Biblical Hebrew Text Portions 《圣经》希伯来文文本部分分组的三种方法的意义

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-28 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9320

A. Forbes

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Israelian Hebrew, Inscriptions from the North of Israel, and Samaritan Hebrew: A Complex of Northern Dialects 以色列希伯来语，来自以色列北部的铭文，撒玛利亚希伯来语:北方方言的综合体

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-28 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9719

Gary A. Rendsburg

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Free Forms of Address and the Cases of Expressive Shift in Biblical Hebrew 《圣经》希伯来语中的自由称呼形式和表达转换案例

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9297

Young Bok Kim

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The Varieties of DSS Hebrew as Reflected in Two Syntactic Traits, and the Sociolinguistic Situation Underlying the Qumran Hebrew Variety 从两个句法特征看DSS希伯来语的变体及库姆兰希伯来语变体的社会语言学状况

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9325

M. Colasuonno

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Reported Direct Speech in the Hebrew Bible and in the Andersen-Forbes Morphology and Syntax Database 《希伯来圣经》和安徒生-福布斯词法句法数据库中的间接引语

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9319

Ulf Bergström

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The Noun ’îš in Ancient Hebrew: A Marker of Essential Participation 古希伯来语中的名词“<e:1>”:本质参与的标志

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9321

David E. S. Stein

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Determining the Significance of Lexical Features as Indicative of CBH and LBH: Insights from the Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible 确定作为CBH和LBH指示的词汇特征的意义:来自提比里亚文体分类器对希伯来圣经的启示

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9302

Joshua Berman

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The Meaning of Qatal Qatal的含义

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9299

Kevin Grasso

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A Re-examination of Verb Agreement with Conjoined Subjects in Biblical Hebrew 《圣经》希伯来语连词动词一致性再考

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9295

Jesse Scheumann

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