OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Semitic Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A First Description of Arabic on The South Coast of Iran: The Arabic Dialect of Bandar Moqām, Hormozgan	3
Polysyllabic shortening in Modern Standard Arabic	3
The Definiteness Marker of Cypriot Arabic: A Phonological Account	2
Contemporary Ashkenazic Hebrew: The Grammatical Profile of an Overlooked Twenty-First-Century Variety	2
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 Implica	1
The Preservation of The Feminine -T in Some Bedouin-Type Dialects of Arabia and Beyond	1
Pronominal Subject Expression in Spoken Modern Hebrew: A Diachronic Perspective	1
Berber Influence on Arabic Form IX in North Africa	1
The Phonology of the Judaeo-Arabic Dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia)	1
A History of the Passive in Pre-modern Aramaic: An Outline	1
The GT-Stem in Ugaritic and The Middle Voice Semantic Domain*	1
Notes on The Lengthened Imperfect Consecutive in The Samaritan Pentateuch	1
The Morphosyntax of Arabic Exceptives: A Minimalist Approach	1
Adherence to Mirror Image Hierarchy: Evidence from Modern Standard and Libyan Arabic	0
Several Genizah Fragments of Saadya Gaon's Translation of the Pentateuch Copied by Yedutun ben Levi	0
Daniel J. Wilson, Syntactic and Semantic Variation in Copular Sentences: Insight from Classical Hebrew	0
Yael Reshef, Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew	0
Hebrew In The Incantation Bowls and In The Babylonian Vocalization Tradition1	0
On the Etymology of Biblical Hebrew טֶרֶם Ṭɛrɛm ‘before, not yet’	0
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Şirnak, Southeastern Turkey)	0
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).	0
The Introductive Baka/Bāki in Rural Palestinian Arabic	0
Gabriele Mayer, Im Namen des Grossen Lebens: Johannes der Täufer im Johannesbuch der Mandäer	0
‘Unorthodox’ Usages of the Term xabar in the Early Arabic Grammatical Tradition	0
OUP accepted manuscript	0

Deflected Agreement and Verb Singular in Arabic: A Three-Stage Historical Model	0
The Akkadian Expression Lā Watar	0
Andrew R. Davis, Reconstructing the Temple: The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renova-tion in the Ancient Near East and Israel	0
Endalew Assefa, Descriptive Grammar of Ezha: A Gurage Language of Ethiopia (Ethio-Semitic)	0
Aaron D. Hornkohl and Geoffrey Khan (eds), New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew	0
Aaron D. Rubin and Lily Kahn, Jewish Languages from A to Z	0
Narrative verbal forms in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects	0
Aspects of the Ventive-Energic in Official Aramaic	0
Amorite Names through Time and Space	0
Daniel James Waller, The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls	0
Weighing the Baghdādī Raṭl: A Metrological Muddle	0
Karin C. Ryding and David Wilmsen (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics	0
The Fann, a Genre of Oral Poetry in Antiochian Arabic: Remarks on Form and Performance Practice	0
Adverbs Related to ‘Year’ in Semitic	0
A Phantom Verb: Yuttan in Biblical Hebrew	0
Andreas Lehnardt (Bearb.), Hebräische Handschriften: Die hebräischen und aramäischen Einbandfragmente in deutschen Archiven, Bibliotheken und Sammlungen	0
Dioscorides and Galen in the Syriac Tradition: A Reconsideration of Three Passages About Herbs in an Anonymous Syriac Pharmacological Book	0
Mārūṯā's Testimony about the Šabtāyē, Christian ‘Observers of the Torah’ in the Fifth Century CE*	0
‘A great star falls’—cometology in Syriac language and literature	0
Sedentary and Bedouin Dialects in Contact: Remarks on the Dialect of Christians and Muslims in Kufur-Kanna	0
The Sufi Writing Tradition in Arabic	0
An Aramaic Verb Form in a Neo-Babylonian Letter	0
Daniel Birnstiel and Na'ama Patel (eds), Re-engaging Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies	0
The Silence of the Bride: A Fatimid marriage contract on silk	0
Otto Jastrow and Shabo Talay, Der neuaramäische Dialekt von Midyat (Miḏyoyo) Band I: Texte	0
The Debate of Menaḥem and Dunash and a Frame-work for Non-Triliteral Hebrew Verbal Morphology	0
Moshe Bar-Asher, Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew	0
On the Emergence of the Short Form in Hebrew Names	0
The Discourse Marker מ ה ז ה (ma ze) to express Rebuking in Rabbinic Hebrew	0
Evidentiality and Mirativity in Traditional Negev Arabic: Morphological, Lexical and Discourse-Syntactic Strategies	0
On Certain Types of Nonstandard Compounds in Contemporary Hebrew	0
Contrastive Focus Reduplication in Kuwaiti Arabic	0
Benjamin J. Noonan, Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact	0
Beata Sheyhatovitch, The Distinctive Terminology in Šar al-Kāfiya by Raī al-Dīn al-’Astarābāī	0
Ascending to Jerusalem: On Spatial Cognition, Ideology and Language in the Hebrew Bible	0
The ‘Aramaic Substrate’ Hypothesis in the Levant Revisited	0
Ruʾūs al-Jibāl Arabic in Context: A Proposal for an Expanded Typology of Southeastern Arabian Dialects	0
Ilan Eldar, From Mendelssohn to Mendele: The Emergence of Modern Literary Hebrew	0
Nisane: The Life of a Mesopotamian Peasant	0
On the Presence of the Andalusian Ḥayyūj’s Grammatical Theory in Abū al-Faraj Hārūn’s al-Kitāb al-Muštamil in the “East”	0
The Faifi Arabic [St] Reflex of Ṣād: Proto-Semitic or Substrate?	0
Reflections on the Suffix Conjugations in Semitic	0
To Belabour The Points: Encoding Vowel Phonology in Syriac and Hebrew Vocalization	0
The Descent of Iauar to the World of Darkness: A Mandaic Amulet on a Lead Lamella (MLSC 2)	0
The Cataphoric Pronoun in Biblical Hebrew	0
The Argument Flagging and Indexing Construction in the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Baghdad	0
Luba R. Charlap, Language and Textuality in Byzantine Karaism: Grammatical Concepts, Biblical Text Traditions, and Hermeneutic Aspects in the Constantinople Center (Late 11th-	0
The Particle ′Kdy in the Namārah Inscription and a New Interpretation of Line 4	0
Benjamin J. Noonan, Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic: New Insights for Reading the Old Testament	0
Georges Bohas, Les composantes du lexique de l'arabe: entre motivé et non-motivé	0

The Christian Arabic dialect of Mērgī	0
Yesterday and the Day Before in Semitic	0
The Use of Nafs ‘Soul’ for Self-Referencing in al-Maqqarī’s Nafḥ al-ṭīb and the Evolution of the ‘Divided Self’	0
Cohen, Shaye J. D., Robert Goldenberg, and Hayim Lapin, The Oxford Annotated Mishnah	0
Josef Tropper and Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Classical Ethiopic. A Grammar of Gəʕəz	0
Oral Reading Traditions and Scriptural Hermeneutics: The Exegetical Significance of the Pausal Systems in the Hebrew Bible and the Qurʾān	0
Curating the Syriac Literary Heritage in Egyptian Monasteries: A Newly Identified Numeral System in Syriac (British Library, add. 14587)	0
Sound of Quantitative Metres in Medieval Hebrew Poetry	0
Maciej Klimiuk, Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork – Community – Change	0
Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin, Arabic Sociolinguistics	0
Approaching the ‘Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit’	0
Some linguistic features of the dialect of Acre and their possible explanation by the history of the city	0
Body and Mind, Husband and Household, Collaborators and Communities: Centrifugal Spheres of Protection in an Aramaic Incantation Bowl (MC 77.233)	0
Ori Shachmon, Tēmōnit: The Jewish Varieties of Yemeni Arabic	0
Behold-Nå̄, Statistics is an Effective Tool, Use It-Nå̄	0
Definiteness, pronoun suffixes, genitives and two types of syntax in Sudanese Arabic1	0
T-S A43.1+ and the Imitation of the Tiberian Reading Tradition	0
The Evolution of Morpho-Syntactic Mood in Arabic: A View from early Christian Arabic Gospel Manuscripts	0
The Qɘltu Dialect of Al-Dōr	0
The Girl in the Ape’s House: A folktale in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic variety of Urmiya, Russia	0
Michael Rand, Studies in the Medieval Hebrew Tradition of the Ḥarīrīan and Ḥarizian Maqama: “Maḥberot Eitan ha-Ezraḥi”	0
Marlene Guss-Kosicka, Die Verbalsysteme des Amharischen und Tigrinischen. Eine vergleichende Analyse	0
Alexander Borg, Rewriting Dialectal Arabic Prehistory. The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence	0
Phonetic Variance of /d/ and /r/ in Hebrew in Late Antiquity	0
Towards a Better Understanding of the Ḥarsusi Language	0
Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint, Jerusalem: City of the Book	0
Nick Posegay, Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew	0
The Syntax of the Jewish Arabic Dialect of Wad-Souf (Saharan Algeria)	0
David J. Fuller, A Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk	0
Sonja Noll, The Semantics of Silence in the Hebrew Bible	0
Journal of Semitic Studies Volume LXVI (2021) Index	0
Otto Jastrow, Der arabische Dialekt der Christen von Kaʿbīye (Diyarbakir)	0
Giuseppe Petrantoni, Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions	0
Remarks on a New Aramaic Incantation Bowl IM 77781	0
An Overlooked Definition of the Ethpeel of the Verb in Syriac	0
There’s Something Bad in the Packs: A Vernacular Aramaic Phrase in al-Ṭabarī’s and al-Masʿūdī’s Histories?	0
The Medieval Prosodic Orthography of the Tiberian Masoretic Reading Tradition	0
Which ‘That’ Was Amharic Yä-? An Alternative Origin for the Amharic Relative-Genitive Marker	0
Roy L. Heller, The Characters of Elijah and Elisha and the Deuteronomic Evaluation of Prophecy: Miracles and Manipulation	0
Lisa J. White with illustrations by Mahmoud Shaltout, Rooted in the Body: Arabic Metaphor and Morphology	0
Benjamin D. Suchard, The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels	0
Stephen Coleman, The Biblical Hebrew Transitivity Alternation in Cognitive Lin-guistic Perspective	0
ʿAttīḏ-Compounds in Middle Aramaic: Discursive Functions and Tense-Aspect-Modal Characteristics	0
The Aramaic Construction qaṭlēh l-malkā ‘He Killed the King’ Aramaic Syntax in Ethiopic?	0
Assaf Bar-Moshe 2019. The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Baghdad: Phonology, Morphology, and Texts	0
— Yiqtol as Evidential Strategy in Biblical Hebrew	0
Matthew Mcaffee, Life and Mortality in Ugaritic: A Lexical and Literary Study	0
The Etymology of Sabaic brṯ‘place’	0
A donation list from Elephantine: Judaean and Non-Judaean onomastic characteristics from the Persian period in Egypt	0
The Second Canonization of the Qur’ān: A Review Article	0
Numeral reduplication as a pluractional marker in Jordanian Arabic	0
Verbal system and poetics in the works of Yehuda Ha-Lewi	0
On Negation with the Bipartite Constructions ʿĒB-(V/V:)Š and MĀ-(V/V:)Š in Šrūgi Arabic	0
The Gutturals in North Argobba: An Etymological Evaluation	0
The Non-Triliteral Theory of Verbal Morphology of the Karaite Joseph IBN Nūḥ	0
Valentina Grasso, Pre-Islamic Arabia: Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity	0
An Enigmatic Aramaic-Hebrew-Greek Glossary of The Jerusalem Talmud	0
On the Acoustics of Emphasis in Central Mount Lebanon Lebanese	0
Jan Best, How to Decipher the Byblos Script	0
Situation Aspect, (UN)Boundedness and The Participial Periphrastic Construction in Biblical Hebrew	0
Cursing the Beloved and Uglifying the Beautiful: Disguised Praise in Medieval Arabic Philology	0
A Note on the Safaitic Calendar	0
Early Phonological Traditions in a Contemporary Hebrew Sociolect	0
Epenthesis and vowel intrusion in Central Dhofari Mehri	0
Furthering the Further Quest for Ugaritic	0
The Feminine Ending -at in Shammari Arabic: a Response to Marijn Van Putten	0
The Morphosyntax of Objects to Participles in the Qurʾān	0
The Enigma of Mehri and Southern Peninsular Arabic Existential śī and šī	0
The Semantics and Syntax of Stem IV in Soqotri1	0
Ulf Bergström, Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms	0
Revisiting the Hebrew Definite Article: A Reference Hierarchy Model	0
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Peter Stein, Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München, Band 2: Die altsabäischen und minäischen Inschriften. Mit einem An	0
Reimund Leicht and Giuseppe Veltri (eds), Studies in the Formation of Medieval Hebrew Philosophical Terminology	0
A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages, With a Special Focus on Languages in Contact: A Review Essay	0
Debuccalization in Gulf Pidgin Arabic: OT Parallelism or Harmonic Serialism	0
M. P. Streck. Old Babylonian Grammar: Volume One	0
Kay Prag, Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology	0
Ludwig D. Morenz(mit Beiträgen von DAVID SABEL), Sinai und Alphabetschrift. Die frühesten alphabetischen Inschriften und ihr kanaanäisch-ägyptischer Entstehungshorizont im Zweiten Jahrta	0