The present volume is based on a selection of papers delivered at the "Oslo-Austin Workshop in Semitic Linguistics" on May 23 and 24, 2013. The topics covered include "Reanalysis and new roots: an Akkadian perspective" (John Huehnergard), "The morphosyntax of nominal antecedents in Semitic, and an innovation in Arabic" (Na'ama Pat-El), "Transitivity and the binyanim" (Oyvind Bjoru), "The b-imperfect once again: typological and diachronic perspectives" (Jan Retso), "The main line of a biblical Hebrew narrative and what to do with two perfective grams" (Bo Isaksson), "Finiteness as manifested by grounding and deixis: Amharic (Semitic) and Sidaama (Cushitic)" (Kjell Magne Yri), "Hebrew and Hebrew-Yiddish terms and expressions in contemporary German: some (socio-)linguistic observations" (Lutz Edzard), and "Muhamed Hevai Uskufi Bosnevi's 1631 work Makbul-i 'arif from a Turcological perspective: the state of the art" (Silje Susanne Alvestad).