TY - BOOK AU - Gragg,Gene B. AU - Miller,Cynthia L. AU - Jones,Charles E. TI - Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic linguistics presented to Gene B. Gragg T2 - Studies in ancient Oriental civilization SN - 9781885923417 (pbk.) AV - PJ3001.5 .S78 2007 U1 - 492 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Chicago, Ill., [Oxford PB - Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Oxbow, distributor] KW - Gragg, Gene B KW - Gragg, Gene B. KW - Semitic languages KW - Congresses KW - Afroasiatic languages KW - Semitic philology KW - Festschrift KW - gnd-content KW - Bibliographie KW - idszbz KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - [Études diverses] KW - rero N1 - 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 ER -