- Afro-Asiatic Linguistics
- Akkadian
- Akkadian Language
- Amarna Letters
- Ancient Hebrew
- Ancient Near East
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- Arabic Language and Linguistics
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- Languages and Linguistics
- Loanword, Language contact & change
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Papers
2011.Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification. Semitic Languages, ch. 9
Co-authored with Aaron Rubin. In Semitic Languages: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 36; ed. Stefan Weninger in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, and Janet Watson; Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton) 259–78.
2008 Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription: Additions and Corrections
Huehnergard, John. 2008. Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription, revised edition (Harvard Semitic Studies 32; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns). 375–406.
2009 A Proper View of Arabic, Semitic, and More: A Response to George Mendenhall
With Gary A. Rendsburg and Aaron D. Rubin. Journal of the American Oriental Society 128 (2008, appeared 2009) 533–41
2006 Hebrew Verbs I–w/y and a Proto-Semitic Sound Rule
Memoriae Igor M. Diakonoff (Babel und Bibel 2; Orientalia et Classica, Papers of the Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies 8, Russian State University of the Humanities; ed. L. Kogan, N. Koslova, S. Loesov, and S. Tishchenko; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005 [appeared 2006]) 459–74
1997 Akkadian
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (ed. Eric M. Meyers; New York: Oxford). 1.44–49
1997 Emar Texts
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (ed. Eric M. Meyers; New York: Oxford). 2.239–40
1996 New Directions in the Study of Semitic Languages
The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-First Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference (ed. Jerrold S. Cooper and Glenn M. Schwartz; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns). 251–72
1995 Semitic Languages
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (ed. Jack M. Sasson; New York: Scribners). 4.2117–34
1995 OBCT Hamrin Basin no. 21
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 1995/4 no. 106 (pp. 92–93)
1993 The Development of the Third Person Suffixes in Phoenician
Maarav 7 (1991; Gevirtz volume, part I; appeared 1993): 183–94
1993 Meskene (Imar/Emar), A. Philologisch
Reallexikon der Assyriologie (ed. D. O. Edzard; Berlin/ New York: de Gruyter). 8.83
1992 Historical Phonology and the Hebrew Piel
Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew (ed. Walter R. Bodine; Society of Biblical Literature; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns). 209–29
1992 Languages: Introductory Survey
The Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman; New York: Doubleday). 4.155–70
1991 Further South Semitic Cognates to the Akkadian Lexicon
Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau on the Occasion of his Eighty-fifth Birthday November 14th, 1991 (ed. Alan S. Kaye; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz). 1.690–713
1991 Remarks on the Classification of the Northwest Semitic Languages
The Balaam Text from Deir ·Alla Re-evaluated. Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Leiden 21–24 August 1989 (ed. J. Hoftijzer and G. van der Kooij; Leiden: Brill). 282–93
1991 More on KI.erṣetu at Emar
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 1991/2 no. 58 (p. 39)
1988 The Museum of World Cultures Elamite Brick
Discoveries (Newsletter of the Museum of World Cultures, UNC Wilmington): February 1988
1987 Three Notes on Akkadian Morphology
“Working with No Data”: Semitic and Egyptian Studies Pre¬sented to Thomas O. Lambdin (ed. D. Golomb; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns). 181–94
1987 The Feminine Plural Jussive in Old Aramaic
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 137: 266–77
1987 Northwest Semitic Vocabulary in Akkadian Texts
Journal of the American Oriental Society 107: 713–25
1986 Texts and Fragments” (an Ur III tablet in the collection of the Museum of World Cultures, UNC Wilming¬ton)
Journal of Cuneiform Studies 38: 245
1985 Biblical Notes on Some New Akkadian Texts from Emar (Syria)
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 47: 428–34
1986 Review of A. Abou-Assaf, P. Bordreuil, and A. R. Millard, La statue de Tell Fekherye
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 261: 91–95
1983 Asseverative *la and Hypothetical *lū/law in Semitic
Journal of the American Oriental Society 103: 569–93
1981 Akkadian Evidence for Case-vowels on Ugaritic Bound Forms
Journal of Cuneiform Studies 33: 199–205
2008 On Revising and Updating BDB
With Jo Ann Hackett. Foundations for Syriac Lexico¬graphy III: Collo¬quia of the International Syriac Language Project (ed. Janet Dyk and W. Th. van Peursen; Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics 4; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias) 227–34
2008 Qiṭṭa: Arabic Cats
Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Hein¬richs on His 65th Birthday Presented by His Students and Colleagues (ed. Beatrice Gruendler; Leiden: Brill). 407–18
2007 qātîl and qətîl Nouns in Biblical Hebrew
Sha‘arei Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Jewish Languages Presented to Moshe Bar-Asher (ed. A. Maman, S. E. Fassberg, and Y. Breuer; Jerusalem: Bialik Institute). 1.*3–*45
2007 Comments on Yushu Gong, ‘Graph-Typology of Ancient Chinese and Sumerian Writing Systems — A Comparative Perspective’
Oriental Studies (Peking): Special Issue: Collection of Papers on Ancient Civilizations of Western Asia, Asia Minor and North Africa (2006; appeared 2007). 109–15
2007 Some Aspects of the Cleft in Semitic Languages
With Na’ama Pat-El. Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honor of Gideon Goldenberg (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 334; ed. Tali Bar and Eran Cohen; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag). 325–42
2006 Proto-Semitic and Proto-Akkadian
The Akkadian Language in its Semitic Context: Stud¬ies in the Akkadian of the Third and Second Millennium BC (ed. G. Deutscher and N.J.C. Kouwenberg; Leiden: NINO). 1–18
2006 On the Etymology of the Hebrew Relative šɛ
Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives (ed. Steven E. Fassberg and Avi Hurvitz; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns). 103–25
2005 Reflexes of *qatl Forms in Gə‘əz
Semitic Studies in Honour of Edward Ullendorff (ed. Geoffrey Khan; Leiden: Brill). 26-36
2005 Features of Central Semitic
Biblical and Oriental Essays in Memory of William L. Moran (ed. Agus¬tinus Gianto; Biblica et Orientalia 48; Rome: Pontificio Istituto Biblico). 155–203
2004 YOS 2/AbB 9 no. 40, 20–21: Distributive Possession in an OB Letter
Nouvelles Assyrio¬lo¬giques Brèves et Utilitaires 2004/4 no. 87 (p. 88)
2003 Review of Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, ed., Mosaïque de langues, mosaïque culturelle: le bilinguisme dans le Proche-Orient ancien
Journal of Near Eastern Studies 62: 294–98
2003 Akkadian ḫ and West Semitic *ḥ
Studia Semitica (ed. Leonid Kogan; Orientalia: Papers of the Orien¬tal Institute, 3 [Alexander Militarev volume]; Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities). 102–19
2003 The Alphabet on a Late Babylonian Cuneiform School Tablet
With Frank Moore Cross. Orientalia 72: 223–28
2002 Review of T. Muraoka and B. Porten, Grammar of Imperial Aramaic
Journal of the American Oriental Society 122: 604–7
2002 izuzzum and itūlum
Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen (ed. Tzvi Abusch; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns). 161–85
2002 Review of Mireille Hadas-Lebel, Histoire de la langue Hébraïque: Des origines à l’époque de la Mishna, 4th ed.
Journal of the American Oriental Society 122: 651–52
2002 Comparative Semitic Linguistics
Israel Oriental Studies 20 (Semitic Linguistics: The State of the Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, ed. Shlomo Izre’el): 119–50
2000 Old South Arabian Inscriptions in the Harvard Semitic Museum
The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond: Essays in Honor of James A. Sauer (ed. Lawrence E. Stager, Joseph A. Greene, and Michael D. Coogan; Studies in the History and Archaeology of the Levant, 1; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns). 196–206
1999 On the Etymology and Meaning of Hebrew nābîʾ
Eretz Israel 26 (Frank Moore Cross volume; ed. Baruch A. Levine, et al.): 88*–93*
1999 Ugaritic Words in Syllabic Texts
Handbook of Ugaritic Studies (ed. W. G. E. Watson and N. Wyatt; Handbuch der Orientalistik 39; Leiden: Brill). 134–39
1999 The Akkadian Letters
Handbook of Ugaritic Studies (ed. W. G. E. Watson and N. Wyatt; Handbuch der Orientalistik 39; Leiden: Brill). 375–89
1999 A Cuneiform Lexical Text from Ashkelon with a Canaanite Column
With W. H. van Soldt. Israel Exploration Journal 49: 184–92. Reprinted in Ashkelon 1: Introduction and Overview (ed. Lawrence E. Stager, J. David Schloen, and Daniel M. Master; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008). 327–32
1997 The Form i-na-a-ku-um-mi in KBo 1 5 iii 59
Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 1997/4 no. 139 (pp. 129–30)

