"American linguist" . "1950Z"^^ . . . "2007Z"^^ . "O'Connor, Michael Patrick"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "2007-06-16Z"^^ . . . . . . . "Michael P O'Connor"@en . "Michael Patrick O'Connor"@en . "Michael Patrick O'Connor (1950, Lackawanna, New York \u2013 June 16, 2007, Silver Springs, New York) was an American linguist. O'Connor was a leading linguist in the field of Semitic languages, especially Hebrew. He had an alternate explanations for Hebrew Bible language which focused on its poetic characters, and expanded the study of the grammar of early Aramaic and other Northwest Semitic dialects."@en .