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Author Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (1st : 2009 : Brisbane, Qld.)

Title Burning issues in Afro-Asiatic linguistics / edited by Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 387 pages)
Contents Table of contents; chapter one -- bridging the different disciplines in the area of afro-asiatic linguistics; i -- cushitic, berber, semitic, omotic and proto-afro-asiatic; chapter two -- negation in highland east cushitic; chapter three -- from proto-afroasiatic; chapter four -- on construct state nominals: evidence for a predicate approach; chapter five -- ancient aramaic and its use in the biblical translation, targum onqelos; chapter six -- addressing strangers in riyadh; chapter eight -- omotic lexicon in its afro-asiatic setting ii: omotic *b- with nasals, *r, *l, and weak consonants
Ii -- asiatic etymology versus etymythologychapter nine -- a syllabic melodic structure in a japanese obon song: a probable hebrew-aramaic narrative; chapter ten -- asia at both ends: an introduction to etymythology, with a response to chapter nine
Summary This refereed volume is a collection of scholarly articles resulting from research conducted for the first international Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL), held on 11-13th September, 2009 at the State Library of Queensland
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Afroasiatic languages -- Congresses
Linguistics -- Congresses
Language.
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Afroasiatic languages
Linguistics
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Zuckermann, Ghil'ad
ISBN 9781443864626
1443864625