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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812424303321

Titolo

Burning issues in Afro-Asiatic linguistics / / edited by Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2012

ISBN

1-4438-6462-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Disciplina

409.5

Soggetti

Afroasiatic languages

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This refereed volume is a collection of selected scholarly articles resulting from research conducted for the first international Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL), held on 11-13 September 2009 at the State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane; as well as at the Great Court, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane. The University of Queensland has been home to scholars and linguists such as Georges



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