Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Phoenician-Punic: The View Backward-Phonology versus Paleography -- The Road Not Taken: An Independent Object Pronoun in Cebel Ires Dağı 7A-7B? -- On Negation in Phoenician -- The Phoenician Words mškb and ʻrr in the Royal Inscription of Kulamuwa (KAI 24.14-15) and the Body Language of Peripheral Politics -- The Syntax and Pragmatics of Subject Pronouns in Phoenician -- Fronted Word Order in Phoenician Inscriptions -- The "Narrative Infinitive" in Phoenician and Its Background: A Discourse Analysis Approach -- The Linguistic Position of Old Byblian -- Phoenician Case in Typological Context -- A Brief Case for Phoenician as the Language of the "Gezer Calendar" -- Index of Authors.