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Burning issues in Afro-Asiatic linguistics / edited by Ghil'ad Zuckermann.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (1st : 2009 : Brisbane, Qld.), issuing body.
- Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afroasiatic languages--Congresses.
- Afroasiatic languages.
- Linguistics--Congresses.
- Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Perec, Eric Partridge and...
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6462-5
- OCLC:
- 884726022
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