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Subject(s)

• Afroasiatic languages [Browse]

Editor

• Tosco, Mauro [Browse]

Series

• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; Volume 339. [More in this series]
• Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 0304-0763 ; Volume 339

Summary note

These articles offer an updated view of the breadth of theoretical and empirical research in the different subgroups of the Afroasiatic phylum. 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.

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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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Contents

• Intro
• AFROASIATIC
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Afroasiatic: Fresh insights from an "old" language family
• References
• Part i. Afroasiatic: Classification and typology
• Did Proto-Afroasiatic have marked nominative or nominative-accusative alignment?
• 1. Cases in Berber and Cushitic
• 2. The nominative-absolutive alignment, or marked nominative system
• 3. The personal pronoun in languages with nominative-absolutive alignment
• 4. The personal pronoun in Afroasiatic: Egyptian, Cushitic
• 5. The personal pronoun in Berber
• 6. Chadic: the personal pronouns in Hausa
• 7. Originally only two paradigms of the personal pronoun?
• 8. Correlation of noun cases and pronoun paradigms
• The limits and potentials of cladistics in Semitic
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Methodologies, techniques
• 2.1 Methodologies
• 2.2 Data characteristics
• 2.3 Software used
• 2.4 Languages represented in the graphs
• 3. Projections of data to the models
• 3.1 Constructing phylogenetic trees
• 3.2 The NeighborNet networks
• 4. Discussion
• 5. Conclusions
• Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowing
• 1. Subclassification of ES languages
• 2. A 250-word list as evidence for subclassification
• 3. Percentages of shared cognates in a 98-word list
• 4. Rate of error in counting cognates
• 5. Numbers of shared cognates in the 250-word list
• 6. Lexical evidence in the ES family tree
• 7. Number of lexemes unique to ES and its subgroups
• 8. ES cognates with proto-languages
• Part ii. Forms and functions
• Reconsidering the 'perfect'-'imperfect' opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system
• 2. A brief account of the 'perfect'-'imperfect' opposition in the literature
• 3. Methodological problems.
• 4. Reconsidering the faʿala-yafʿalu opposition in Classical Arabic
• 4.1 Syntactic environment
• 4.2 Compatibility with particles
• 4.3 Clause types ('word-order')
• 4.4 Lexical classes
• 4.5 Textual domains
• Primary sources
• Secondary sources
• The imperfective in Berber: Evidence of innovated forms and functions
• 2. The Berber verbal system
• 3. The negative imperfective in Berber
• 4. Innovations in the Berber verbal system
• 4.1 Innovations in the Tuareg verb
• 4.2 Innovations in the Tarifit verb
• 5. Conclusion
• Condition, interrogation and exception: Remarks on particles in Berber
• 1. ad in Zenaga
• 2. is in Tamazight and Tashlhit
• 3. m(a) in the northern varieties
• 3.1 The polyfunctional ma
• 3.2 m(a) derivatives
• 4. Variants to the element k(a)
• 5. kan in the eastern varieties
• 6. kud and its variants in the southern central area
• 7. Conclusion
• Specific abbreviations
• Appendix
• The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic
• 2. The classification of Kordofanian Baggara Arabic
• 3. Tense, aspect and mood in KBA
• 4. The forms and the semantics of modals in KBA
• 4.1 gídir, b=i-gdar "can, be able"
• 4.2 dāyir "want, need"
• 4.3 mimkin, imkin "it's possible"
• 4.4 ille "except"
• 4.5 lāzim "it's necessary"
• 4.6 la buddi "inevitably"
• 4.7 axēr lē "had better, ought to"
• 4.8 min la buddi "it's likely"
• 4.9 bukūn (epistemic) "must"
• List of symbols and glosses
• Part iii. Predication and beyond
• Insubordination in Modern South Arabian: A common isogloss with Ethiosemitic?
• Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic)
• 2. Possessive and genitive constructions
• 2.1 Synthetic construction.
• 2.2 Analytic construction
• 3. Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• The characterization of conditional patterns in Old Babylonian Akkadian
• 1. Preliminaria
• 1.1 General background
• 1.2 The domains
• 1.3 Literature review
• 1.4 Terminology
• 2. Parameters
• 2.1 Preceding polar directive: polar lexical resumption
• 2.2 Negative polarity items: (otherwise) negative expressions and arḫiš ul
• 2.3 Special semantics: the temporal frame of ul iprus
• 2.4 Diverging from modal congruence
• 2.5 The pattern: forms and structure
• 2.6 The respective function of the forms inside the pattern
• 2.7 Summary
• 3. Distinction from other analogous patterns
• 4. Conclusions
• Locative predication in Chadic: Implications for linguistic theory
• 1.1 The aim and scope of the study
• 2. State of the art with respect to locatives in Chadic
• 3. The terms
• 4. The hypotheses
• 5. Synchronic and diachronic methodology required for locative predication
• 6. Complementarity of lexical and grammatical means in locative predication in Mina
• 6.1 The system
• 6.2 Inherently locative predicate and inherently locative complement: coding through juxtaposition
• 6.3 Locative predicate and non-locative complement: Predicate n Noun
• 6.4 Non-locative predicate and locative complement: Predicate á Noun
• 6.5 Non-locative predicate and non-locative complement: Predicate á n Noun
• 7. Locative predication in Hausa
• 8. Locative predication in Pero
• 9. Mupun (West Chadic)
• 9.1 Predicator a in Mupun
• 9.2 The directional predicator n
• 10. Lele (East Chadic): coding locative predication by serial verb constructions
• 10.1 The interest of the situation in Lele
• 10.2 Inherently locative predicates and inherently locative complements
• 10.3 Coding the locative complement through postposition.
• 10.4 Animate locatives
• 10.5 Summary of the coding of locative predication in Lele
• 11. Hdi: Locative predication through locative prepositions
• 11.1 Prepositions dá and dà
• 11.2 Stative locative predication in Hdi
• 11.3 Summary of the locative coding in Hdi
• 12. Locative predication in East Dangla
• 12.1 Summary of the locative predication in East Dangla
• 13. Summary of the evidence for the locative predication
• 14. Further evolution of locative predication
• 14.1 The nature of the changes
• 14.2 Gidar (Central Chadic)
• 14.3 A summary of the locative predication in Gidar
• 15. Conclusions and implications
• Unipartite clauses: A view from spoken Israeli Hebrew
• 2. Prosody, discourse and syntax
• 3. What is a unipartite clause?
• 4. Classification of unipartite clauses
• 4.1 Anchored
• 4.2 Unanchored
• The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber): Grammatical relations and information structure
• 1.1 General information about Kabyle
• 1.2 Relevant coding means
• 2. Information structure
• 2.1 Function of [Vsbj (NABS)]
• 2.2 Function of [Vsbj NPann (NPabs)]
• 2.3 Function of [NABS Vsbj (N)]
• 2.4 Function of NABS [Vsbj (N) (N)]
• 2.5 Function of [Vsbj (N) (N)] NANN
• 2.6 Synthesis on information structure
• 3. Grammatical relations
• 3.1 Grammatical relations are not marked unambiguously by one coding means
• 3.2 The interaction of state, position, prosodic grouping, and gender-number marking
• 3.4 Implications
• 4. General conclusion
• Index.

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