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# Benjamin Suchard

Benjamin Suchard has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2021, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Historical linguistics & language change](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/), [Hebrew & Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/).

2 papers in our library · 2019–2021

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004498151) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5688-4488) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004498151) · [64 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004498151) · [142 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004498151&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-suchard/#papers) · [🔗 1 citation in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-suchard/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4512](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/46/#star-4512)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Benjamin+Suchard) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Benjamin+Suchard) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Benjamin+Suchard) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Benjamin+Suchard)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Leiden University** Leiden · Netherlands 2016–2026 · 22 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/leiden-university/) · [🎓**Ghent University** Ghent · Belgium 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ghent-university/) · [🎓**KU Leuven** Leuven · Belgium 2020–2025 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ku-leuven/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Topics

[Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Historical linguistics & language change (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suchard-2021-reconstruction-proto-semitic-genitive-ending/)

### 2010s

[**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suchard-2019-sound-changes-pre-masoretic-reading/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Sound Changes in the (Pre-)Masoretic Reading Tradition and the Original Pronunciation of Biblical Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suchard-2019-sound-changes-pre-masoretic-reading/)** *(2019 · 28 citations)* The biblical text was handed down for about a thousand years as a consonantal text plus an oral reading tradition, and the reading tradition kept changing.
2. **[The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suchard-2021-reconstruction-proto-semitic-genitive-ending/)** *(2021 · 4 citations)* Suchard revisits the reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic genitive ending on triptotic nouns. The standard view is unbound *-im and bound *-i. Akkadian, however, has a long -ī- before pronominal suffixes, and nobody had explained that length. Drawing on Akkadian, Classical Arabic, Ugaritic and Geʿez, plus internal…

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-suchard/cited-by/).