Bo Isaksson
Professor in Semitic Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- E-mail:
- bo.isaksson@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA - Available:
- enl ök per epost
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Forthcoming monograph (2024)
The Verb in Classical Hebrew. Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures. Univ. of Cambridge.
Positions
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Senior Professor of Semitic Languages at the Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University 2014-2016.
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Professor of Semitic Languages at the Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University 2000–2014.
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Senior scholar for the research project "Circumstantial clause combining in Semitic” funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) 2010-2012.
Publications
Selection of publications
- The textlinguistics of the Suffering Servant (2011)
- Review of Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics, vol. I, A-D (2009)
- Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic (2009)
- Circumstantial qualifiers in Qumran Hebrew (2008)
- Circumstantial qualifiers in the Arabic dialect of Kinderib (East Turkey) (2008)
- Circumstantial qualifiers in Arabic (2007)
- Semitic circumstantial qualifiers in the Book of Judges (2007)
- The syntax of the narrative discourse in Qohelet (2007)
- The Professorship of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University 400 years (2007)
- In Memoriam. Frithiof Rundgren (1921–2006) (2006)
- Frithiof Rundgren: Gigantisk lärdom, humanism och skarpsinne (2006)
- Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion (2005)
- Orientalia Suecana (2005)
- New linguistic data from the Sason area in Anatolia (2005)
- Balansräkning (2005)
- Aspektläran/ Aspectology (2005)
- Infinitiven som adverbiellt komplement i Domarboken (2005)
- Review of Arabische Texte aus Kinderib, by Otto Jastrow (2005)
- Orientalia Suecana (2004)
- Towards a corpus-based syntax of the Arabic language. Review article (2004)
- Review of Der arabische Dialekt der Khawetna I-II, by Shabo Talay (2004)
- Sason (2003)
- The notion of diachrony and the modern Arabic dialects (2003)
- Three border towns between Turkey and Syria: ʿĀmūda, Dǝrbēsiyye and Rās ǝl-ʿAyn (2002)
- The Hebrew manuscript from the ‘The new find’ in the Monastery of St. Catherine (2000)
- The non-standard first person singular pronoun in the modern Arabic dialects (1999)
- ‘Aberrant’ usages of introductory wǝhāyā in the light of text linguistics (1998)
- Studies in the language of Qoheleth. With special emphasis on the verbal system (1987)
Recent publications
- The Biblical Hebrew short yiqṭol and the ‘consecutive tenses’ (2021)
- A misunderstood Biblical Hebrew participle clause in Genesis 33.13 and its clause linking context in a complete utterance (2019)
- Dödahavsrullarna och det hebreiska språket (2018)
- Clause combining in the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1–43) (2017)
- Dödahavsrullarna (2017)
All publications
Articles
- Dödahavsrullarna och det hebreiska språket (2018)
- Clause linking strategies in the narrative and instructional discourse of Joseph’s speech in Gen. 45: 3-15 (2014)
- Review of Satzkomplex und Funktion: Syndese und Asyndese im Althocharabischen, by Michael Waltisberg (2009) (2014)
- Review of Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics, vol. I, A-D (2009)
- Semitic circumstantial qualifiers in the Book of Judges (2007)
- In Memoriam. Frithiof Rundgren (1921–2006) (2006)
- Frithiof Rundgren: Gigantisk lärdom, humanism och skarpsinne (2006)
- Infinitiven som adverbiellt komplement i Domarboken (2005)
- Lärostol med aktualitet (2005)
- Review of Arabische Texte aus Kinderib, by Otto Jastrow (2005)
- Towards a corpus-based syntax of the Arabic language. Review article (2004)
- Den judiska gudstjänstpoesin i ljuset av en handskrift från S:ta Katharinaklostret (2004)
- Review of Der arabische Dialekt der Khawetna I-II, by Shabo Talay (2004)
- The notion of diachrony and the modern Arabic dialects (2003)
- The Hebrew manuscript from the ‘The new find’ in the Monastery of St. Catherine (2000)
- Review of Theologie aus der Peripherie. (1999)
- The non-standard first person singular pronoun in the modern Arabic dialects (1999)
- Arabic Dialectology: The State of the Art (1996)
- Frithiof Rundgren’s Published Works 1986–1997 (1996)
- The personal morphological space and a notion of distance in Semitic grammar (1993)
- Att närma sig verkligheten (1992)
- The personal markers in the modern Arabic dialects of the Arabian peninsula (1991)
- Review of The Blessings in the Targums. A Study on the Targumic Interpretations of Genesis 49 and Deuteronomy 33, by Roger Syrén (1990)
- A response to John G. Gammie’s review of Studies in the Language of Qoheleth (1990)
- The position of Ugaritic among the Semitic languages (1989)
- Concerning two arguments of H. Bauer for a priority of the so-called imperfect (the ‘Aorist’) (1986)
Books
- Dödahavsrullarna (2017)
- The Arabic Dialect of Tillo in the Region of Siirt (South-eastern Turkey) (2016)
- Clause Combining in Semitic (2015)
- Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages (2014)
- Orientalia Suecana: Vol. LX (2011) (2012)
- Orientalia Suecana (2010)
- Orientalia Suecana (2009)
- Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic (2009)
- Orientalia Suecana (2007)
- "Hind behärskade högspråket-" (2007)
- The Professorship of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University 400 years (2007)
- Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion (2005)
- Orientalia Suecana (2005)
- Orientalia Suecana (2004)
- ”Hind behärskade högspråket...” (2004)
- About the Berbers (2004)
- Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1998 (1998)
- Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1997 (1998)
- ”Hind behärskade högspråket...”: Textkurs i klassisk arabiska med utgångspunkt i R.-E. Brünnows och A. Fischers "Arabische Chrestomatie" (1998)
- Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1996 (1996)
- Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1995 (1995)
- Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1994 (1994)
- Studies in the language of Qoheleth. With special emphasis on the verbal system (1987)
Chapters
- The Biblical Hebrew short yiqṭol and the ‘consecutive tenses’ (2021)
- A misunderstood Biblical Hebrew participle clause in Genesis 33.13 and its clause linking context in a complete utterance (2019)
- Clause combining in the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1–43) (2017)
- The so-called we-qatal conjugation in Biblical Hebrew once again (2015)
- The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew (2015)
- ‘Subordination’: Some reflections on Matthiessen and Thompson’s article "The structure of discourse and ‘subordination’" and its bearing on the idea of circumstantial clause in Arabic and Hebrew (2015)
- The main line of a biblical Hebrew narrative and what to do with two perfective grams (2014)
- Archaic biblical Hebrew poetry: The linking of finite clauses (2014)
- Subordination (2013)
- The textlinguistics of the Suffering Servant (2011)
- Dödahavsrullarna översatta till svenska (2009)
- Circumstantial qualifiers in Qumran Hebrew (2008)
- The syntax of the narrative discourse in Qohelet (2007)
- New linguistic data from the Sason area in Anatolia (2005)
- Balansräkning (2005)
- Aspektläran/ Aspectology (2005)
- Reflections on the linguistic situation in Anatolia and northern Syria from a Semitist's perspective (2005)
- Inrättandet av professuren i semitiska språk och några ord om dess historia / The establishment of the chair of Semitic languages and a few words on its history (2005)
- Sason (2003)
- Three border towns between Turkey and Syria: ʿĀmūda, Dǝrbēsiyye and Rās ǝl-ʿAyn (2002)
- Expressions of evidentiality in two Semitic languages (2000)
- Report from a research project and in addition a brief account of the dialect of Amuda (2000)
- Iranian and Turkic influence on border area Arabic dialects (2000)
- ‘Aberrant’ usages of introductory wǝhāyā in the light of text linguistics (1998)
- The Monastery of St. Catherine and the New Find (1997)
- Dödahavsrullarna (1996)
- The separate first person pronoun in the modern Arabic dialects (1996)
- Andalusien – islam i Europa under 700 år (1996)
Conferences
