Burning issues in Afro-Asiatic linguistics. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ghil'ad Zuckermann.
• Other Names: Zuckermann, Ghil'ad; Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, 1st
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 387 pages)
• Subjects: 492; Language; Afroasiatic languages -- Congresses; Linguistics -- Congresses; Afroasiatic languages -- Congresses; Afroasiatic languages; Linguistics -- Congresses; Linguistics; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic; Afroasiatic languages; Linguistics; Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443864626; 1443864625
• Related ISBNs: 9781443840705; 144384070X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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