Semitic languages
Research at Uppsala University in Semitic Languages is mainly divided between the fields of Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew and Assyriology.
Within the field of Arabic Studies, the focus is on studies of syntax, modern Arabic dialects, textual criticism (critical comparisons of manuscripts), literature and media. Within the field of Hebrew Studies, the focus is on Biblical Hebrew syntax and North-West Semitic. Research on Aramaic encompasses both ancient and modern varieties, in particular Surayt/Turoyo and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, as well as Classical Syriac literature. Research in Assyriology is described in detail here.
Research areas
Aramaic
- North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic: documentation, morphosyntax, language contact (Coghill)
- Diachronic change in Aramaic (Coghill)
- Development of the begadkefat (fricativization) in Surayt/Turoyo (Sina Tezel, Aziz Tezel)
- Neologisms in Surayt/Turoyo (Sina Tezel)
- Flora and fauna in Surayt/Turoyo lexicon (Aziz Tezel)
- Syriac grammar (Eskhult, Aydin)
- Syriac lexicon (Aydin)
- Syriac and Ethiopic literature with emphasis on apocryphal, historiographic and monastic genres (Witakowski)
- Syriac philosophy and science, Syriac zoology (Aydin)
Arabic
- Arabic dialectology and documentation, especially dialects of the Levant, Iraq and Anatolia (Agbaht, Saouk, Coghill)
- Christian Arabic (Eskhult)
- Arabic blogging in Egypt, Lebanon and Kuwait (Ramsay)
- Ecology and environmental concerns in Arabic literature (Ramsay)
- Arabic literature, primarily modern (Ramsay)
- Classical Arabic text linguistics (Isaksson)
- The diachronic perspective of Biblical Hebrew (Eskhult)
Hebrew and North-West Semitic
- Classical Hebrew text linguistics and philology (Eskhult, Isaksson, Petersson)
- Biblical Hebrew in diachronic and dialectal perspectives (Eskhult, Isaksson, Petersson)
- Comparative North-West Semitic Linguistics (Petersson)
- Hebrew literature, primarily modern (Månsson)
General Semitic
- Hypotactic clause linkage in Semitic languages (Isaksson)
- Comparative Semitic Linguistics (Sjörs)
Group members
Sami Aydin, researcher
Eleanor Coghill, professor
Mats Eskhult, professor emeritus
Bo Isaksson, professor emeritus
Jonas Karlsson, junior lecturer
Paul Katsivelis, junior lecturer
Johan Ljungberg, PhD student
Anette Månsson, senior lecturer
Gail Ramsay, professor emerita
Aziz Tezel, researcher
Sina Tezel, senior lecturer
Witold Witakowski, docent (retired)
Publications
2 Samuel and the Deuteronomist – A discussion of verbal syntax
Part of Die Samuelsbücher und die Deuteronomisten, p. 18-31, Kohlhammer, 2010
1999
A Catalogue of Christian Arabic Bible Translations at the British Library
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
Part of The rod and measuring rope, p. 35-37, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019
A response to John G. Gammie’s review of Studies in the Language of Qoheleth
Part of Hebrew Studies, p. 275-276, 1990
2003
‘Aberrant’ usages of introductory wǝhāyā in the light of text linguistics
Part of Lasset uns Brücken bauen..., p. 9-25, Peter Lang, 1998
Activists, Individualists and Comics: The Counter-publicness of Lebanese blogs
Part of Television and New Media, p. 286-303, 2013
Part of Metasprachliche Reflexion und Kontinuität, Nodus Publikationen, 2014
Andalusien – islam i Europa under 700 år
Part of Att förstå Europa – mångfald och sammanhang, p. 81-92, Uppsala universitet, 1996
2011
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 115-132, 1996
Part of Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized, p. 554-568, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015
Part of Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latine, p. 45-57, 2016
- DOI for Aramejskie słowa i wyrażenia w grece Nowego Testamentu [= Aramaic Words and Phrases in the Greek Version of the New Testament]
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Archaic biblical Hebrew poetry: The linking of finite clauses
Part of Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014
Aspektläran/ Aspectology: Frithiof Rundgren i Uppsala / Frithiof Rundgren in Uppsala
Part of Till Österland vill jag fara / The Call of the Orient, p. 54-59, Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, 2005
Att närma sig verkligheten: Några tankar om vishetens väg i det forna Israel
Part of Religion och Bibel, p. 35-42, 1992
2017
Balansräkning: Predikaren berättar om sin uppgörelse med livet och visheten
Part of Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala. Årsbok 2004, p. 19-38, Kungl. Humanistiska vetenskaps-samfundet i Uppsala, 2005
Blogs & Literature & Activism: Popular Egyptian blogs and literature in touch
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017
Breaking the silence of nature in an Arabic novel: Nazif al-hajar by Ibrahim al-Kawni
Part of From Tur Abdin to Hadramawt, p. 149-172, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014
Part of Contemporary Literary Criticism, p. 206-220, Gale Group, 2016
Part of Turcologica Upsaliensia: an illustrated collection of essays, Brill Academic Publishers, 2020
Circumstantial qualifiers in Gulf Arabic dialects
Part of Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic:, Harrassowitz, 2009
Part of Conservatism and innovation in the Hebrew language of the Hellenistic period, p. 79-91, Brill, 2008
Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic: the case of Arabic and Hebrew
Otto Harrassowitz, 2009
Circumstantial qualifiers in the Arabic dialect of Kinderib (East Turkey)
Part of Between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, p. 251-258, 2008
Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015
Part of Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics, p. 233-269, Eisenbrauns, 2017
Part of Journal of Semitic Studies, p. 15-45, 2014
2003
Concerning two arguments of H. Bauer for a priority of the so-called imperfect (the ‘Aorist’)
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 181-187, 1986
Djuren och människorna inför djinnkonungens domstol: Ur Ikhwan al-Safa's epistel nr 22
Part of Karavan, p. 112-119, 2017
Dödahavsrullarna: En översikt över den senare forskningen
Part of Qumranlitteraturen, p. 7-33, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1996
Dödahavsrullarna och det hebreiska språket
Part of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, p. 66-85, 2018
Dödahavsrullarna översatta till svenska
Part of Fest för språken, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, 2009
2015
Egyptiska bloggare: Del av en tradition och ett uppror
Part of Årsbok/Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, p. 109-130, 2012
Expressions of evidentiality in two Semitic languages: Hebrew and Arabic
Part of Evidentials, p. 383-399, Mouton de Gruyter, 2000
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 217-220, 1996
2011
2011
Från Occident till Orient och tvärtom: En resa i noveller från Persiska viken
Part of Språkets gränser och gränslöshet: Då tankar, tal och traditioner möts, p. 275-284, Uppsala universitet, 2001
Fysionomik och astrologi (4Q186)
Part of Dödahavsrullarna, p. 152-155, Bibelakademiförlaget, Svenska Bibelsällskapet, 2017
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 145-164, 2008
Gustaf Peringer's speech in praise of the Oriental languages (1674)
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 135-144, 2008
Inst. för lingvistik och filologi, 2004
Höga Visan och Palestinsk kärlekspoesi
Part of Plogbillar och svärd, p. 32-43, Molin & Sorgenfrei, 2012
"In a common rejoicing": Liturgical communion with angels in Qumran
1999
In Memoriam. Frithiof Rundgren (1921–2006)
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 5-6, 2006
Infinitiven som adverbiellt komplement i Domarboken: En komparativ studie
Part of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, p. 107-118, 2005
Part of Till Österland vill jag fara: Professuren i semitiska språk vid Uppsala universitet 400 år / The Call of the Orient: The Professorship of Semitic languages at Uppsala University 400 years, p. 4-11, Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, 2005
Inverting the Stranger: Salīm Barakāt in the Land of the Living Dead
Part of Arabic Literature in a Posthuman World, p. 119-127, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019
Iranian and Turkic influence on border area Arabic dialects: A contact linguistic investigation
Part of Proceedings of the Third International Conference of AÏDA – Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe – held in Malta 29 March - 2 April 1998, p. 201-206, Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, 2000
Jerusalem 1967 - två berättelser om en stad
Part of Religion och Bibel, p. 103-128, 2013
Language Loss in the Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo-speaking Communities of the Diaspora in Sweden
Part of Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic, p. 487-501, 2021
Part of Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World, Wayne State University Press, 2013
Lost in the City: An Essay on Christian Attitudes towards Urbanism in Late Antiquity
Part of The urban mind, p. 311-328, Uppsala universitet, 2010
Med bloggen som vapen: närstudie av två egyptiska fall
Part of Internationella studier, p. 55-65, 2009
2021
M.F.Rogland, Alleged Non-Past Uses of QATAL in Classical Hebrew (PhD thesis): Review
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 192-194, 2004
2015
Natur och välbefinnande i kris- och orostider, Libanon och Irak
Part of Bortom den arabiska våren, p. 153-176, Dar Al-Muna, 2021
Nature and Well-Being in Times of Crisis and Unrest: Iraq and Lebanon
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 1-21, 2022
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Nature as a road to integration?: A Saudi experience
Part of British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, p. 419-435, 2019
- DOI for Nature as a road to integration?: A Saudi experience
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Part of Arabic and contact-induced change, p. 371-402, Language Science Press, 2020
Neo-Aramaic and its linguistic context, written by Geoffrey Khan and Lidia Napiorkowska (eds.)
Part of Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2016
Part of Neo-Aramaic and its Linguistic Context, p. 100-109, Gorgias Press, 2015
New linguistic data from the Sason area in Anatolia
Part of Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion., p. 181-190, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: The dialect of Alqosh
Part of The Semitic Languages, p. 711-747, Routledge, 2019
On the circumstantial character of Syriac kad with a participle or adjective
Part of Parole de l'Orient, p. 201-227, 2010
Orientalia Suecana Vol. LXI (2012): Supplement
Institutionen för Lingvistik och Filologi, 2012
Part of Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics, Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
Passage to a new wor(l)d: Exile and restoration in Mahmoud Darwish's writings 1960-1995
2003
Priestly source of the Pentateuch
Part of Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, p. 230-232, Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
Relative ha-: A late Biblical Hebrew phenomenon?
Part of Hebrew in the Second Temple Period, p. 47-55, Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
Report from a research project and in addition a brief account of the dialect of Amuda
Part of Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of AÏDA – Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe – held in Marrakesh 1-4 April 2000, p. 201-210, Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, 2000
Reuven Snir: Religion, Mysticism and Modern Arabic Literature
Part of Orientalia Suecana, 2008
Review of Arabische Texte aus Kinderib, by Otto Jastrow
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 222-223, 2005
Review of Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics, vol. I, A-D
Part of Langues et Literatures du Monde Arabe, p. 148-150, 2009
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 217-218, 2010
Part of Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, p. 247-251, 2014
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 199-200, 2009
Part of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, p. 121-123, 1990
Part of Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, p. 25-31, 2013
Part of Review of Biblical Literature, p. 1-5, 2018
Review of Theologie aus der Peripherie.: Die gespaltene Koordination im Biblischen Hebräisch
Part of Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, p. 685-691, 1999
Sason: New data from a nearly forgotten Arabic minority in Turkey
Part of Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AÏDA), p. 39-49, Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, Cádiz, 2003
Semitiska språk från Bibeln till Sveriges Yttrandefrihetsgrundlag
2016
Some Cuneiform Texts from the Haldar Collection. Two Old Babylonian Contracts
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 5-22, 2008
Some Remarks on Language Use and Arabic Dialects in Eastern Turkey
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 105-114, 2009
Språket, litteraturens spegel - modern litteratur i Persiska viken
Part of Det sköna med litteraturen, p. 44-60, Svenska Akademien, Norstedts, 2009
Part of Parole de l'Orient, p. 145-158, 2018
2014
Strategies of realizing place and home in two Palestinian novels
Part of Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature, Georg Olms Verlag AG, 2016
Studies in the language of Qoheleth. With special emphasis on the verbal system
Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1987
Subordination: Biblical Hebrew
Part of Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, vol. 3, p. 657-664, Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
Part of Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized, p. 404-424, Otto Harrassowitz, 2015
Tense form and tense frames in Qumran Hebrew prose and poetry
Part of The reconfiguration of Hebrew in the Hellenistic period, p. 16-29, 2018
Text Sample from Dērīk (al-Malikiyah)
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 61-72, 2010
Contact
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