Abbreviations

A: Anthropos

AAL: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics

AION: Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli "L’Orientale”

BJALL: Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics

BSOAS: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

IJNA: International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

JIES: Journal of Indo-European Studies

JRAIGBI: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

JRAS: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

JRGS: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society

JSS: Journal of Semitic Studies

L: Lingua

MAS: Matériaux arabes et sudarabiques, nouvelle série

NP: Nomadic People

PAMBLS: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society

PASC: Problemi Attuali di Scienza e di Cultura

PBA: Proceedings of the British Academy

PSAS: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies

QuadRi: Quaderni di Ricognizioni

RFLJ: Revue de La Faculté des Lettres El Jadida

SL: Studia linguistica

ZAL: Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik

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