Afroasiatic
Data and perspectives
Editor
The articles in the present volume offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research being carried on in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. They are written by leading specialists and are representative of widely different perspectives and interests, from the analysis of data from scarcely known varieties to the reappraisal of old debates (such as the value of the Classical Arabic verbal forms).
Reflecting a great diversity of language structures and functions, the articles are grouped into three broad areas: the phylum as such in its classificatory and typological aspects; the analysis of the intricate morphology of Afroasiatic and its developments; and the syntax of Afroasiatic in its widest sense, from the clause to the sentence and beyond. They witness how Afroasiatic, with its unsurpassed historical depth and immense geographical breadth, keeps representing a constant source of fascinating data and implications for linguistic theory.
Reflecting a great diversity of language structures and functions, the articles are grouped into three broad areas: the phylum as such in its classificatory and typological aspects; the analysis of the intricate morphology of Afroasiatic and its developments; and the syntax of Afroasiatic in its widest sense, from the clause to the sentence and beyond. They witness how Afroasiatic, with its unsurpassed historical depth and immense geographical breadth, keeps representing a constant source of fascinating data and implications for linguistic theory.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339] 2018. vi, 288 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Afroasiatic: Fresh insights from an “old” language familyMauro Tosco | pp. 1–7
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Part I. Afroasiatic: Classification and typology
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Did Proto-Afroasiatic have marked nominative or nominative-accusative alignment?Helmut Satzinger | pp. 11–22
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The limits and potentials of cladistics in SemiticPetr Zemánek | pp. 23–39
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Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowingGrover Hudson | pp. 41–57
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Part II. Forms and functions
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Reconsidering the ‘perfect’–‘imperfect’ opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal systemMichal Marmorstein | pp. 61–83
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The imperfective in Berber: Evidence of innovated forms and functionsMena Lafkioui | pp. 85–103
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Condition, interrogation and exception: Remarks on particles in BerberCatherine Taine-Cheikh | pp. 105–130
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The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara ArabicStefano Manfredi | pp. 131–149
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Part III. Predication and beyond
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Insubordination in Modern South Arabian: A common isogloss with Ethiosemitic?Olga Kapeliuk | pp. 153–165
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Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic)Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle | pp. 167–184
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The characterization of conditional patterns in Old Babylonian AkkadianEran Cohen | pp. 185–202
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Locative predication in Chadic: Implications for linguistic theoryZygmunt Frajzyngier | pp. 203–233
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Unipartite clauses: A view from spoken Israeli HebrewShlomo Izre’el | pp. 235–259
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The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber): Grammatical relations and information structureAmina Mettouchi | pp. 261–285
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Index | pp. 287–288
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2C: Linguistics/Afro-Asiatic languages
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General