EGYPTIAN, SEMITICAND GENERAL GRAMMAR
STUDIES IN MEMORY OFH. J. POLOTSKY
JEDITED BY
GIDEON GOLDENBERG ARIEL SHISHA-HALEVY
JERUSALEM 2009
THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
CONTENTSIntroduction
viiEdward UllendorffThe Young (and Not So Young) Polotsky: Scholar and Teacher 1
OrlyGoldwasserA Comparison between Classifier Languages and Classifier Script:The Case of Ancient Egyptian l6Wolfgang SchenkelPradikatives und abstrakt-relativischess’émnsfBeobachtungen an den Verben II. gem. und ult. n im Korpus der Sargtexte 40Helmut SatzingerOn Some Aspects ofjw in Middle Egyptian 61
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Methodological Issues in the (Morpho)PhonologicalDescription of Coptic 70Ariel Shisha-HalevyOn Conversion, Clause Ordination and Related NotionsSome Reflections on General and Polotskyan Models
_ 92Shlomo Izre’elConstructive ConstructionsSemitic VerbalMorphology and Beyond 106Eran CohenNexus and Nexus Focusing 131
NathanWassermanThe Modal Particle tuS‘a in Old Babylonian 149Rainer VoigtSfidtigrinische DialektePhonologie und Personalpronomina im Dialekt von May-C’aw (Togray) 169GideonGoldenbergFrom Speech to Writing in Gurage-LandFirstAttempts to Write in the Vernacular 184Rafael TalmonTwo Studies in Arabic Tamyiz 197JoshuaBlauReconstruction of Neo-ArabicDialectal Features from Middle Arabic Texts 220
Otto JastrowThe Arabic Dialects of the Carmel Coast
Roni HenkinHow Interdialectal Is Peripheral Oral Bedouin Poetry?
Rami SaariSome Remarks on Maltese Prepositions of Italian Origin
Ora (Rodrigue) SchwarzwaldThree Related Analyses in Modern HebrewMorphology
Tamar ZewiContent Expressions in Biblical Hebrew
Dana TaubeThe Passive Participle in Modern Hebrew
Tali BarOn Cleft Sentences in Contemporary Hebrew
Marta Rauret Domenech‘Kopula’: Ein “zur reChten Zeit gestelltesWort”?
Simon Hopkins“That Monster of aMan” and the Emotive Genitive
Marcel ErdalFirst and Second Person Nominal Subjects
Alviero NiccacciPolotsky’s Contribution to the Egyptian Verb-System,with a Comparison to Biblical Hebrew
Pablo I. Kirtchuk-HaleviLanguage: A Typological, Functional, Cognitive, Biologicaland Evolutionary Approach
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