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Title Afroasiatic : data and perspectives / edited by Mauro Tosco, University of Turin
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 288 pages)
Series Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; volume 339
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 339. 0304-0763
Contents Intro; AFROASIATIC; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Afroasiatic: Fresh insights from an â#x80;#x9C;oldâ#x80;#x9D; 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; References; 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; References; Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowing; 1. Subclassification of ES languages
2. A 250-word list as evidence for subclassification3. 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; References; Part ii. Forms and functions; Reconsidering the â#x80;#x98;perfectâ#x80;#x99;â#x80;#x93;â#x80;#x98;imperfectâ#x80;#x99; opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system; 1. Introduction; 2. A brief account of the â#x80;#x98;perfectâ#x80;#x99;â#x80;#x93;â#x80;#x98;imperfectâ#x80;#x99; opposition in the literature
3. Methodological problems4. Reconsidering the faÊ¿alaâ#x80;#x93;yafÊ¿alu opposition in Classical Arabic; 4.1 Syntactic environment; 4.2 Compatibility with particles; 4.3 Clause types (â#x80;#x98;word-orderâ#x80;#x99;); 4.4 Lexical classes; 4.5 Textual domains; 5. Conclusions; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; The imperfective in Berber: Evidence of innovated forms and functions; 1. Introduction; 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2018)
Subject Afroasiatic languages.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Afroasiatic languages
Form Electronic book
Author Tosco, Mauro, editor
LC no. 2017050051
ISBN 9789027264572
9027264570