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Development of tense/aspect in Semitic in the context of Afro-Asiatic languages /

The author applies the comparative method for the reconstruction of earlier aspectual systems in the Afro-Asiatic phylum of languages. Moving 'upstream' from the documented systems of Semitic, Berber and Old Cushitic the state of affairs during the common stage of Proto-Semito-Berbero-Cush...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bubeník, Vít, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; 337.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures and tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Theoretical framework
  • Chapter 1. Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages
  • Chapter 2. Semitic aspectual and diathetic systems
  • Chapter 3. Central and South Semitic
  • Chapter 4. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic aspectual and diathetic system
  • Chapter 5. Berber aspectual and diathetic system
  • Chapter 6. Cushitic aspectual and diathetic system
  • Chapter 7. Old egyptian aspectual and diathetic system
  • Chapter 8. Chadic aspectual and diathetic system
  • Chapter 9. Reconstructing the proto-afro-asiatic aspectual and diathetic system
  • Chapter 10. Typology and universals of tense and aspect
  • Postscript
  • References
  • Index of authors
  • Subject index