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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Semitic"”.
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Formal problems in semitic phonology and morphology
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Arabic phonology: implications for phonological theory and historical Semitic.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… in which nineteenth-century British novels use a Semitic discourse to imagine and construct Christian English people as racially pure. One result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth century was the fear that they might pass undetected and …
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Identifying Correlates in Anti-Semitic Incidents on College Campuses in the U.S.
… colleges experienced approximately 5% of anti-Semitic incidents nationwide in 2014. These incidents included harassment, verbal taunts and physical attacks. This study will seek to identify the possible correlating factors of these incidents and others like it. The factors examined are the …
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Grammatical Analysis of Various Biblical Hebrew Texts According to a Traditional Semitic Grammar
… BIBLICAL HEBREW TEXTS ACCORDING TO A TRADITIONAL SEMITIC GRAMMAR Richard Charles McDonald, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014 Chair: Dr. Russell T. Fuller Although linguistic Hebraists are dissatisfied with traditional grammatical analysis, this dissertation demonstrates that …
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The Goodman psycholinguistic model of English reading and its applicability to Semitic languages
… Reading, and testing its applicability to Semitic languages. Due to the multi-tier nature of Arabic orthography (i.e. letters and diacritics), two questions were addressed: (1) how the absence/presence of diacritics affects the readers' performance on the reading tasks, and (2) how readers …
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What is a “Helpmate”? Using Comparative Semitic Linguistics to Propose New Translations for Ezer Kenegdo
<p>This dissertation argues that a comparative Semitic analysis of ezer kenegdo (KJV: “help meet”) in Genesis 2:18, 20 can provide new semantic ranges that enrich the reading of gender roles in Genesis 1-3. The usage of ezer kenegdo in Genesis 2:18, 20 has defied satisfactory interpretation, even …
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Semitic Phonemes with Special Reference to the Ugaritic and in the Light of the Egyptian Evidence
Our task is to study the phonemes of the Semitic language, including, so far as is reasonably certain, the Egyptian language, and paying particular attention to new evidence made available by the discovery of Ugaritic. This task will require dealing with descriptive phonemics, which is the analysis …
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Central Sacrifice and the Sacrificial Other: A Thematic Comparison of Anti-Judaic and Anti-Semitic Artwork Emerging in Germany
… religious understanding of anti-Judaic and anti-Semitic distinction, rather than a historian's perspective. By utilizing both a religious and artistic lens, the images <em>become</em> the text from which the scholar(s) will study. Focusing exclusively on German image(s) and artwork, this study …
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Some cults of Greek goddesses and female daemons of oriental origin: especially in relation to the mythology of goddesses and demons in the Semitic world
… In Chapter Two we consider the evidence for Semitic motifs in the iconography, mythology and names of Greek goddesses connected with nature. Thus Semitic influence is clear in the case of Artemis and Rhea as lion-goddesses, Britomartis as a `Mistress of the Beasts', Leto as a goddess of the …
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The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
… work dealt with the issue of vocalisation in Semitic scripts, which lacked the letters required to precisely record all the vowels in their languages. Semitic scribes thus developed systems of written vocalisation points to better record vowel sounds, first in Syriac, then soon after in Arabic …
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Towards a phonetic and phonological typology of post-velar articulation
… of post-velars as understood from work on Semitic and Caucasian. Pharyngeals from six Interior Salish languages are examined to determine the range of variation. The basic finding of this acoustic work is that the Interior Salish post-velars are commensurate with what is known about …
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Henry Ford's anti-Semitism: A rhetorical analysis of the "paranoid" style
… and how, he propagated the longest running anti-Semitic campaign in history. A synergy of two existing theories in communication, Hofstadter (1966) and Smith (1977) provided the appropriate framework for this study. Their observations of high-profile figures being labeled as politically …
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Monsters at the End of Time: Gog and Magog and Ethnic Difference in the Catalan Atlas (1375)
… sources as obscure derivatives of these anti-Semitic depictions. However, the Catalan Atlas (1375), which depicts Gog and Magog as Tartars, problematizes this characterization. Created by Abraham Cresques, a Jewish cartographer, for Pedro IV of Aragon, I argue that the Atlas modifies …
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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Figure of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature
… either a) the depiction is intended to be anti-Semitic; b) philo-Semitic; c) that the playwrights are merely observing and documenting the anti-Semitism prevalent in Elizabethan London. This reductive view oversimplifies our understanding of the complexities of Jewish characters on the British …
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The Verb in Transitional Libyan Arabic: Morphomes, the Stem space and Principal parts
… debate in recent years, especially in Semitic linguistics with ablaut-rich inflectional systems. This study provides a novel synchronic account to Transitional Libyan Arabic morphology, using a stem-based approach that assesses the morphomicity (Maiden, 2009, p.45) of stem alternations …
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The influence of ancient near eastern vassal treaties on the seven prophetic messages in revelation.
… messages of Revelation (SMR) indicates a Hebraic-Semitic influence which has a long history. It starts with the Hittite and Assyrian treaties and is identifiable inthe OT pentateuchal material, and the OT prophetic oracles. This large body of material influences John. While the Torah unmistakably …
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Syncope and Epenthesis in Levantine Arabic: A Nonlinear Approach
… mapped. In addition, he showed that the Semitic root pattern system can be reduced to the assumption that radical consonants and vowels are on separate tiers representing different morphemes. The development of underspecification theory (Archangeli 1984) made it possible for the radical …
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A guide to national socialism : the Third Reich and Richard Wagner
… worst kind. absolutely nobody. He was an anti-Semitic took other men's wives and money - he fascinating to play. 3 The music of the Nazis is not the Prelude to Die Meistersinger but the Horst-Wessel lied, they deserve nothing better and no other respect can be paid them. 4 The mere mention of …
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