Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics presented to Gene B. Gragg /
edited by Cynthia L. Miller.
- Chicago, Ill. : [Oxford : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ; Oxbow, distributor], 2007.
- xxviii, 220 p. : ill., maps, 1 port. ; 30 cm.
- Studies in ancient Oriental civilization ; no. 60 .
- Studies in ancient oriental civilization no. 60. .
Selected conference papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The research of Gene B. Gragg / Cynthia L. Miller -- Gene B. Gragg as a teacher / Robert D. Hoberman -- The Afrasian lexicon reconsidered / M. Lionel Bender -- PDQ revisited / Stuart Creason -- 'May the gods preserve you!' / Joseph L. Daniels II -- Littera ex occidente : toward a functional history of writing / Peter T. Daniels -- The story of Mem u Zine in the neo-Aramaic dialect of Bohtan / Samuel Ethan Fox -- Prenasalization in Aramaic / W. Randall Garr -- A new Masoretic "spell checker," or, a Practical method for checking the accentual structure and integrity of Tiberian-pointed biblical texts / Richard L. Goerwitz III -- External plural markers in Semitic / Rebbeca Hasselbach -- Semitic triradicality or prosodic minimality? : evidence from sound change / Robert D. Hoberman -- Akkadian-Egyptian lexical matches / Alexander Militarev -- Constraints on ellipsis in biblical Hebrew / Cynthia L. Miller -- The Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform writing system in the context of other alphabetic systems / Dennis Pardee -- West Semitic perspectives on the Akkadian vetitive / David Testen.