Journal of Semitic Studies 66/2

Volume 66 Issue 2   Autumn 2021       Articles       On the Emergence of the Short Form in Hebrew Names     Vladimir Olivero     On Certain Types of Nonstandard Compounds in Contemporary Hebrew     Nimrod Shatil     Aspects of the Ventive‐Energic in Official Aramaic     Ambjörn Sjörs     The Particle ′Kdy in the Namārah Inscription and a New Interpretation of Line 4     Ahmad Al‐Jallad     In the Middle of What? A Fresh Analysis of the Language Attested in the Judaeo‐Arabic Commentary on Pirqê 'ĀvōT (The Sayings of the Fathers), Middle Arabic and Implications for the Study of Arabic Linguistic History     Phillip W Stokes   The Argument Flagging and Indexing Construction in the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Baghdad     Assaf Bar‐Moshe     The Morphosyntax of Arabic Exceptives: A Minimalist Approach     Hussein Al‐Bataineh     Deflected Agreement and Verb Singular in Arabic: A Three‐Stage Historical Model     Jonathan Owens     The Definiteness Marker of Cypriot Arabic: A Phonological Account     Charalambos Christodoulou; Spyros Armostis; Marilena Karyolemou     Cursing the Beloved and Uglifying the Beautiful: Disguised Praise in Medieval Arabic Philology     Beata Sheyhatovitch   Who is     Oliver Kahl     Nisane: The Life of a Mesopotamian Peasant     Charles G Häberl; Sergey Loesov     Which 'That' Was Amharic Yä‐? An Alternative Origin for the Amharic Relative‐Genitive Marker     Hongwei Zhang     A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages, With a Special Focus on Languages in Contact: A Review Essay     Gary A Rendsburg       Index       Journal of Semitic Studies Volume LXVI (2021) Index           Reviews       Pierre Bordreuil†, Dennis Pardee and Carole Roche‐Hawley, Ras Ibn Hani II ‐ Les textes en écriture cunéiformes de l'âge du Bronze récent (fouilles 1977 à 2002).     Tania Notarius     David J. Fuller, A Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk     Csaba Balogh     Sonja Noll, The Semantics of Silence in the Hebrew Bible     H H Hardy, II     Benjamin J. Noonan, Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic: New Insights for Reading the Old Testament     Robb Coleman     Daniel J. Wilson, Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences: Insight from Classical Hebrew     Tamar Zewi     Moshe Bar‐Asher, Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew     Ivri J Bunis     Beata Sheyhatovitch, The Distinctive Terminology in Šar al‐Kāfiya by Raī al‐Dīn al‐'Astarābāī     Simona Olivieri