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		<title>My &#8220;dream&#8221; job, just a couple years early</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Jack Sasson&#8217;s Agade list:
YALE UNIVERSITY, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is seeking to fill a full-time appointment as Lector or Senior Lector with responsibility to teach Aramaic, Advanced Syriac, Ugaritic, and Comparative Semitics, beginning July 1, 2010. Competence in further Semitic languages is welcomed. Ph.D. preferred but not required. Interest in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=580&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More definiteness &#8211; the familiarity approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my last post, in studying definiteness, logical and semantic approaches tend to concentrate on issues such as existence and uniqueness and the truth or falsehood of a proposition in the real world. Discourse approaches, however, have been more interested in the pragmatics of definiteness, particularly the dynamic between the speaker and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=573&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A closer look at definiteness &#8211; the uniqueness approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In languages with the grammatical category of definiteness, the prototypical definite noun phrase is one marked with the definite article. This is usually contrasted with an indefinite article or bare noun phrase such as in example 1:
(1a) I bought the car today.
(1b) I bought a car today.
Explanations for the various uses of the definite article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=568&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Definiteness, information structure, and the particle את in BH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new series of posts I would like to introduce the research project behind my dissertation. My hope is that in being transparent during the writing process I can receive good feedback beyond my primary readers. The danger of being too transparent, of course, is that someone may borrow some of my ideas. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=566&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One step closer</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/one-step-closer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer and fall I have been working on a paper that summarizes much of the linguistic research that forms the background of my dissertation topic. I finally finished and sent the paper off to my advisor yesterday, so if all goes well I can begin working on the actual dissertation proposal here in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=564&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goings on in the blogosphere</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/goings-on-in-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Cook has written a post on the verbal system in BH poetry, a topic I touched on earlier in the summer. His instinct is similar to mine that the semantics of the verbal system are similar in prose and poetry, but this is obscured by the fact that narrative convention &#8220;tips&#8221; the reader to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=561&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Swine?) Flu 2 &#8211; Bekins House 2</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/swine-flu-2-bekins-house-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, both my sons have come down with the flu this past week. Henry is going on day 6 and Jack is into day 2. So far my wife and I have stayed healthy somehow, but I&#8217;m not holding my breath. My basic plan of attack has been to keep my mouth a sterile environment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=559&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday Henry</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/happy-birthday-henry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[5 years ago today, my oldest son Henry was born. I still remember sitting in the hospital working on homework while my wife bounced on an exercise ball eating jello and watching Spongebob Squarepants on TV (this was before the doctor broke her water and got things moving).
The passage I was translating was Isaiah 9, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=555&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuneiform resources</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/cuneiform-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire site is a great resource for introductory material in Assyriology. Besides transliterations and translations of Neo-Assyrian texts, there are good introductions to related subjects as well.
They have just added an excellent introduction to all things cuneiform, Cuneiform Revealed,  including a very helpful intro to the Akkadian language [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=553&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>0 for August</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/0-for-august/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of posts over the past month. There are several reasons for my silence, but mostly:
1) I have been having massive writer&#8217;s block trying to put together my dissertation proposal. I had a spurt at one point, but then I found another dissertation from 2000 that is most of my idea, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=551&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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