Series: Languages of the Ancient Near East

This volume offers a wealth of perspectives on comparative Semitic linguistics emerging from the seventh and eighth meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics (IACS): the Madrid symposium (2016) was devoted to the role of Akkadian in the study of Comparative Semitics, and the Córdoba meeting (2019) focused on Syria at the historical crossroads of Semitic languages. The essays...