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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812441403321

Titolo

Research in Afroasiatic grammar : papers from the Third Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, France, 1996 / / edited by Jacqueline Lecarme, Jean Lowenstamm, Ur Shlonsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; [Great Britain], : John Benjamins, c2000

ISBN

1-282-16369-8

9786612163692

90-272-9956-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 378 pages)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 202

Altri autori (Persone)

LecarmeJacqueline

LowenstammJean

ShlonskyUr

Disciplina

492

Soggetti

Afroasiatic languages - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. On the status of AgrS in some Null Subject Languages (by Akkal, Ahmed); 2. Agreement Asymmetries and the PF Interface (by Benmamoun, Elabbas); 3. Word Order in Hebrew (by Doron, Edit); 4. Bare NPs (by Engelhardt, Miriam); 5. Distributing Features and Affixes in Arabic Subject Verb Agreement Paradigms (by Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader); 6. On Berber Plurals (by Idrissi, Ali); 7. Distributed Morphology: Impoverishment and Fission (by Halle, Morris); 8. Wolof Genitive Constructions and the Construct State (by Kihm, Alain); 9. The No straddling Effect and its Interpretation: A Formal Property of Chaha 2nd Feminine Singular Formation (by Lowenstamm, Jean); 10. Cause, Manner and Means in Berber Change of State Verbs (by Lumsden, John S.); 11. Possession in Sentences and Noun phrases (by Ouhalla, Jamal); 12. The Licensing of Gaps and Resumptive Pronouns in Older Egyptian Relatives (by Reintges, Chris H.); 13. Theorie de l'apophonie et organisation des schemes en semitique (by Segeral, Philippe); 14. Nonnominal Constructs (by Siloni, Tal); 15. Remarks on the Complementizer Layer of Standard Arabic (by Shlonsky, Ur); 16. Recent Problems of Egyptian Historical Phonology at the Present Stage of



Comparative-Historical Afroasiatic Linguistics (by Takacs, Gabor)

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian.