28.2663, Books: Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages: Bubenik

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:36:03
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of Afro-Asiatic Languages: Bubenik

Title: Development of Tense/Aspect in Semitic in the Context of
Afro-Asiatic Languages 
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 337  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.337 

Author: Vit Bubenik

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027265838 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027265838 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027265838 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027248565 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027248565 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027248565 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70

Abstract:

The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier
aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving ‘upstream’
from the documented systems of Semitic, Berber and Old Cushitic the state of
affairs during the common stage of Proto-Semito-Berbero-Cushitic is
reconstructed. With the addition of Egyptian and Chadic data important
conclusions regarding the elusive Proto-Afro-Asiatic are reached. Moving
‘downstream’ the trajectory of individual aspectual systems through their
later stages is analyzed. A central piece of the monograph is the
reconstruction of intermediate stages reflecting the long-term developments of
aspectual and temporal categories of individual languages from the Old towards
their Middle periods. The continuity and innovation in the aspectual systems
towards the contemporary state of affairs in analytic (serial) constructions
of Modern Aramaic and Arabic vernacular languages is explicated. The author
demonstrates that it is imperative to work in a larger typological framework
and that in the field of Afro-Asiatic linguistics valuable insights can be
gained from the study of parallel phenomena in Indo-European languages. At the
same time, Indo-Europeanists will profit from the study of typologically
earlier aspect-prominent systems of Afro-Asiatic languages. The monograph
offers important contributions to our understanding of universals and to the
typology and diachrony of tense and aspect.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic

Written In: English  (eng)

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