Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

Editor(s): Rebecca Hasselbach, Naʿama Pat-El.

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Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 67

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Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday honors the distinguished Semiticist John Huehnergard with thirty contributions from colleagues, students, and friends. The essays reflect the breadth of Huehnergard’s scholarship, with studies spanning Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic grammatical traditions, comparative Semitics, Neo-Aramaic, Modern South Arabian, Judeo-Arabic, Berber, Cushitic, and Pahlavi. The volume also includes contributions on natural history and art, echoing Huehnergard’s wide intellectual interests and the many fields shaped by his work.

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Table of Contents

Contributors and Affiliations.
Preface. Rebecca Hasselbach and Naʿama Pat-El
John as a Teacher and Mentor. Rebecca Hasselbach and Naʿama Pat-El
Students of John Huehnergard.
The Research of John Huehnergard. Rebecca Hasselbach and Naʿama Pat-El
Publications of John Huehnergard.
A Brief Note on the Festschrift Illustrations. X Bonnie Woods

Contributions

Functional Values of iprus Forms in Old Babylonian summa Protases. Eran Cohen
The Hypotaxis-Parataxis Dichotomy and Elliptic Conditional Clauses in Semitic. Lutz Edzard
t-Stem Verbs without Metathesis in Aramaic and Hebrew Documents from the Judean Desert. Steven E. Fassberg
People without Town: The ʿapiru in the Amarna Evidence. Daniel E. Fleming
Denominal, Lexicalized hiphil Verbs. W. Randall Garr
The Treatment of Vowel Length in Arabic Grammar and Its Adaptation to Hebrew. Gideon Goldenberg
Wisdom in Ugaritic. Edward L. Greenstein
Predicate Nominals and Related Constructions in Neo-Mandaic. Charles G. Häberl
Yaqtul and a Ugaritic Incantation Text. Jo Ann Hackett
The Verbal Endings -u and -a: A Note on Their Functional Derivation. Rebecca Hasselbach
Ibn Khaldūn as a Historical Linguist with an Excursus on the Question of Ancient gāf. Wolfhart Heinrichs
A Morphosyntactic Explanation of tǝpôṣôtîkem (Jer 25:34). Jeremy M. Hutton
Canaano-Akkadian: Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Shlomo Izre'el
The Evidential Function of the Perfect in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects. Geoffrey Khan
Les noms de plantes akkadiens dans leur contexte sémitique. Leonid Kogan
Grammaticalization and the Biblical Hebrew Pseudo-Cohortative. Paul Korchin
The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System in a Nutshell. Dennis Pardee
The Syntax of ʾǎšer and šeC — Yet Again. Naʿama Pat-El
Late Biblical Hebrew in the Book of Haggai. Gary A. Rendsburg
Two Modern South Arabian Etymologies. Aaron D. Rubin
“If Water Had Not Been Made to Dry Up, This Earth Would Have Been Drowned”: Pahlavi *āwās- 'to dry.' P. Oktor Skjærvø
Vowel Syncope and Syllable Repair Processes in Proto-Semitic Construct Forms: A New Reconstruction Based on the Law of Diminishing Conditioning. Richard C. Steiner
Reconciling Some Morphological Eccentricities of the Semitic Genitive Case Marker. David Testen
Mixed Linguistic Features in a Judeo-Arabic Text from Algeria: The šarḥ to the hafṭarot from Constantine. Ofra Tirosh-Becker
Alternierende Metrik in der akkadischen Poesie. Josef Tropper
On Personal Names Ending in -āyu in the Amarna Letters and in Texts from Canaan. Wilfred van Soldt
Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Concord Area, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Richard K. Walton
Verbal Endings in the Afroasiatic Prefix Conjugations. Andrzej Zaborski
Prepositional Phrases as Subjects in Several Semitic Languages. Tamar Zewi