Frequency, Analogy, and Suppletion

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His research is philological/linguistic in nature, focusing on ancient Hebrew, and encompassing diachrony and linguistic periodisation; syntax, pragmatics, and the verbal system; the Tiberian written and reading and non-Tiberian Hebrew traditions; textual criticism and literary formation; and historical and contemporary exegesis. He serves on the editorial board of the series Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures. Bo Isaksson (PhD, Uppsala, 1987) is Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University. His research has concerned Classical Hebrew in comparative perspective and Arabic dialectology. In recent years he has initiated two research projects on clause linking in Semitic languages which have generated a number of publications: Clause Combining in Semitic (Harrassowitz, 2015), Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages (Harrassowitz, 2014), Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: The Case of Arabic and Hebrew (Harrassowitz, 2009). His present topic of research is clause linking and the linguistic reality behind the 'consecutive tenses' in Classical Hebrew. Elisheva Jeffay is an MA candidate at Bar-Ilan University, where she received her BA in Linguistics and French. Her research is linguistic, focusing on names in Biblical Hebrew from a syntactic xii New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew and semantic perspective. Her MA thesis will explore the syntactic position of gentilic and personal proper names, as well as their semantics and lexical composition.