35.2827, Books: Cushitic - Omotic: genetic and areal relations: Polshin (2024)

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Subject: 35.2827, Books: Cushitic - Omotic: genetic and areal relations: Polshin (2024)

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Date: 09-Oct-2024
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Cushitic - Omotic: genetic and areal relations: Polshin (2024)


Title: Cushitic - Omotic: genetic and areal relations
Series Title: LINCOM Language Research 15
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: LINCOM
                lincom.eu
Book URL: https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc
88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085
d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969392089%22

Author: Simeon Polshin
Paperback: ISBN: 9783969392089 Pages: 138 Price: Europe EURO 78.80
Abstract:

Genetic and areal relations between Cushitic and Omotic languages are
re-examined using the method of stepwise reconstruction. To this end,
the list of about 180 most stable basic meanings is prepared.
Proto-East and South Cushitic, Proto-North and South Omotic basic
lexicons are reconstructed within this wordlist together with regular
phonemic correspondences between daughter languages of these families.
Main types of root structure in these proto-languages and patterns of
their evolution in the daughter ones are established. These
intermediate proto-languages are compared with the remaining Cushitic
and Omotic languages, namely with Beja, Central Cushitic (Agaw), and
Mao. Regular phonemic correspondences between these (proto-) languages
are found, and the proto-Cushito-Omotic basic lexicon is
reconstructed. By comparing these (proto-)languages with each other
and with Proto-Semitic, it is argued that the oldest Afro-Asiatic
lexical stratum in Omotic is borrowed from the otherwise unknown
Cushitic subgroup, and before this borrowing North and South Omotic
have had nothing to do neither with each other not with the
Afro-Asiatic macro-phylum.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Cushitic
                      Omotic

Written In: English (eng)



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