Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized: A Festschrift for Jan Retso

This festschrift contains 29 essays in honor of the work of Norwegian linguistics scholar Jan Restö, along with a bibliography of his work. Scholars working in Europe, Egypt, Israel, Ethiopia, and the US discuss topics in Slavic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Ethiopic, and comparative Semitic linguistics, and Arabic linguistics, philology, literature, science, and history of ideas. A few essays are in French or German. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)