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