Mitchell Dahood, "New Readings in Lamentations," Biblica 59.2 (1978): 174-197.

Dahood set out to identify instances of scriptio defectiva in Lamentations and ended with a broad application of Northwest Semitic principles of grammar and prosody. Dahood focuses on examples of 1) third suffix y with masculine and feminine nouns, 2) infixed t conjugation, and 3) preformative t with third masculine singular. Some of the passages in Lamentations which benefit from the application of this method are 1.3, 13, 14, 16; 2.2, 14; 3.1, 12, 22, 26; 4.6, 12; 5.5, 14, and 19. Dahood proposes new translations, assuming a mastery of poetic techniques on the part of the Hebrew poet(s), acquired from their literary-historical predecessors, particularly the poetry from Ras Shamra-Ugarit.