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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:14:00
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Afroasiatic Languages: Frajzyngier, Shay (eds.)

 


Title: The Afroasiatic Languages 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/african-and-caribbean-language-and-linguistics/afroasiatic-languages?format=PB 


Editor: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Editor: Erin Shay

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108977852 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 53.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108977852 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 41.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108977852 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 49.01


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern,
Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first
typological study of these languages, which are comprised of around 375 living
and extinct varieties. They are an important object of study because of their
typological diversity in the areas of phonology (some have tone; others do
not), morphology (some have extensive inflectional systems; others do not),
position of the verb in the clause (some are verb-initial, some are
verb-medial, and some are verb-final) and in the semantic functions they
encode. This book documents this typological diversity and the typological
similarities across the languages and includes information on endangered and
little-known languages. Requiring no previous knowledge of the specific
language families, it will be welcomed by linguists interested in linguistic
theory, typology, historical linguistics and endangered languages, as well as
scholars of Africa and the Middle East.

1. Introduction Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay; 2. Berber Maarten Kossmann;
3. Ancient Egyptian and Coptic Antonio Loprieno and Matthias Mueller; 4.
Semitic Gene B. Gragg and Robert D. Hoberman; 5. Chadic Zygmunt Frajzyngier
and Erin Shay; 6. Cushitic Maarten Mous; 7. Omotic Azeb Amha; 8. Typological
outline of the Afroasiatic phylum Zygmunt Frajzyngier.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic


Written In: English  (eng)

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