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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