List of figures and tables
Figure 0.1Event Time with five ‘trappings’
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Table 1.1Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) phylum
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Figure 1.1Genealogical tree of Afro-Asiatic languages
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Figure 2.1Akkadian aspectual system
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Table 2.1Verba mediae infirmae (‘hollow’ roots)
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Table 2.2Four conjugations of Akkadian
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Table 2.3Aktionsart categories of the 3rd and 4th conjugation in Akkadian
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Table 2.4Active and middle voice aspectual categories in Akkadian
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Table 2.5Cross-categorial identity between active Perfect and middle Perfective
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Table 2.6Aspectual categories in the passive
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Table 2.7Derivational relationship of the Perfect, middle Perfective and Stative
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Table 3.1Old Aramaic aspectual system
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Table 3.2Old Hebrew aspectual system
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Table 3.3Mishnaic Hebrew aspectual system
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Table 3.4Gəʕəz aspectual and diathetic system
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Table 4.1‘East’ Proto-Semitic aspectual system
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Table 4.2Mediopassive (Gt) and passive forms
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Table 4.3Mediopassive and passive in Central Semitic
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Table 4.4‘West’ Proto-Semitic aspectual system
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Table 4.5Proto-Semitic aspectual and diathetic system
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Table 4.6Aspectual, modal and diathetic system of Classical Arabic
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Table 4.7Subordinative mode in Babylonian and Assyrian (Imperfective)
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Table 4.8Indicative and subjunctive in Classical Arabic
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Table 4.9The system of derived verbal stems in Proto-Semitic (Kouwenberg 2010)
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Table 4.10‘East’ versus ‘West’ Proto-Semitic aspectual system
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Table 5.1Tense/aspect system of Tamazight
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Table 5.2Tense/aspect system of Tashelhiyt
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Table 5.3Four classes of verbs in Tamazight
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Table 5.4The role of inflectional and derivational ablaut in Tamazight
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Table 5.5Aspectual contrasts in the passive in Tamazight
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Table 5.6Proto-Berber aspectual system
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Table 6.1The main apophonic types of the verbal root –dabil- “collect” in Beja
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Table 7.1Suffix and enclitic pronouns in Old Egyptian
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Table 7.2Old Egyptian independent pronouns
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Table 7.3Stative conjugation in Old Egyptian, Semitic and Berber
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Table 7.4Old Egyptian aspectual system
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Table 7.5Old Egyptian participial system
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Table 7.6Old Egyptian, Proto-Semitic, Proto-Berber and Old Cushitic (Beja) aspectual forms
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Table 7.7Innovative analytic tense forms in Later(r) Egyptian
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Table 7.8Coptic tense/aspect system
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Table 9.1Conjugational and free pronominal elements in Proto-Afro-Asiatic
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Table 10.1The functioning of ablaut in Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Semitic
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Table 10.2Turkish aspectual/temporal system
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Table 10.3The rise of the Perfect and the middle voice categories in Proto-Semitic
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Figure 10.1Event Time with five ‘trappings’
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Table 10.4From aspect-prominent to tense-prominent typology
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Table 10.5Old Aramaic aspectual system (simplified version of Table 3.1)
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Table 10.6Late Aramaic aspectual system
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Table 10.7New Eastern Aramaic aspectual system of Qaraqosh (based on Khan 2002)
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Table 10.8The system of tense and aspect of Israeli Hebrew
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