In:Afroasiatic: Data and perspectives
Edited by Mauro Tosco
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 339] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Afroasiatic: Fresh insights from an “old” language family
1
Mauro Tosco
Part I.Afroasiatic: Classification and typology
Did Proto-Afroasiatic have marked nominative or nominative-accusative alignment?
11
Helmut Satzinger
The limits and potentials of cladistics in Semitic
23
Petr Zemánek
Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowing
41
Grover Hudson
Part II.Forms and functions
Reconsidering the ‘perfect’–‘imperfect’ opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system
61
Michal Marmorstein
The imperfective in Berber: Evidence of innovated forms and functions
85
Mena Lafkioui
Condition, interrogation and exception: Remarks on particles in Berber
105
Catherine Taine-Cheikh
The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic
131
Stefano Manfredi
Part III.Predication and beyond
Insubordination in Modern South Arabian: A common isogloss with Ethiosemitic?
153
Olga Kapeliuk
Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic)
167
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle
The characterization of conditional patterns in Old Babylonian Akkadian
185
Eran Cohen
Locative predication in Chadic: Implications for linguistic theory
203
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Unipartite clauses: A view from spoken Israeli Hebrew
235
Shlomo Izre’el
The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber): Grammatical relations and information structure
261
Amina Mettouchi
Index
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